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Herpes infection may be symbiotic, help beat back some bacteria

05-16-2007 · EurekAlert!

Mice with chronic herpes virus infections can better resist the bacterium that causes plague and a bacterium that causes one kind of food poisoning, researchers report in this week's Nature.

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