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Posted onbyDr. Francis Collins

NETs ensnaring bacteria

Building a Better Bacterial Trap for Sepsis

Spiders spin webs to catch insects for dinner. It turns out certain human immune cells, called neutrophils, do something similar to trap bacteria in people who develop sepsis, an uncontrolled, systemic infection that poses a major challenge in hospitals.

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