Falkow Stanley
Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographical Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Cell. 2006 Feb 24;124(4):699-702. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2006.02.004.
Certain bacterial pathogens have evolved to survive in their human hosts for long periods without causing harm. Is it possible that these persistent bacterial infections provide a protective benefit to the host?
某些细菌病原体已经进化到能够在人类宿主中长期存活而不造成伤害。这些持续性细菌感染有可能为宿主提供保护作用吗?