No Pain, No Gain for This Pathogen / Cell, May 10, 2018 (Vol. 173, Issue 5)

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Chiu and colleagues reveal that the bacterial pathogen behind flesh-eating disease secretes a toxin that induces severe pain and activates a neuronal signaling pathway to suppress host defense. Check out the paper at:  http://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(18)30459-8.

F.A. Pinho-Ribeiro, B., Baddal, R. Haarsma, M. O'Seaghdha, N.J. Yang, K.J. Blake, M. Portley, W.A. Verri, J.B. Dale, M.R. Wessels, et al. (2018). Blocking Neuronal Signaling to Immune Cells Treats Streptococcal Invasive Infection. Cell 173.

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