Salmonella bacteria can cause vomiting, diarrhoea and even typhoid fever very soon after it enters the body. But it can also stay dormant – for about a decade- without showing any symptoms.
What has got scientists interested recently is that cancer-causing tumours shrinks when dormant salmonella stick to their surfaces.
Now, researchers at the Mechanobiology Institute at the National University of Singapore have found a molecular switch which determines whether the bacteria remains dormant or infectious in the body. The findings were published last month in scientific journal eLife.
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