Pathogens have many ways of subverting their hosts' molecular machinery. A striking example of such a ploy comes to light from investigations of the species of bacterium that causes listeriosis.
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Lam, G., Brumell, J. A Listeria escape trick. Nature 455, 1186–1187 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/4551186a
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