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Why do we die from infection? Evidence for suicidal defense strategy
Why do we sometimes die easily from microbial infection? Ichizo Kobayashi's group at Department of Medical Genome Science in Graduate School of Frontier Sciences examined the following hypothesis. If a member of a host population dies immediately upon infection aborting pathogen reproduction, this death can protect the host population from secondary infections. The group verified this Suicidal Defense Against Infection hypothesis in large-scale infection experiments linked to computer simulation. These results provide a novel concept for pathogen virulence.
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