<I>Shigella flexneri</I> (IMAGE)

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

<I>Shigella flexneri</I>

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Shigella flexneri, the causative agent of dysentery (orange), establishes contact with a human host cell (blue). The bar corresponds to a micrometer or a thousandth millimeter, respectively.

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Volker Brinkmann, Diane Schad, and Michael Kolbe

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