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Single protein can determine severity of toxoplasma infections
12-20-2006 · EurekAlert!Now, a team of Stanford University School of Medicine researchers, led by John Boothroyd, PhD, has shown for the first time how toxoplasma manages to be so effective: They documented how it injects a particular protein into the cell it infects and how that protein then travels to the cell's nucleus -- where it blocks the cell's normal response to invasion.
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