Nature Immunology
3, 340 - 342 (2002)
doi:10.1038/ni0402-340
Microbial killing: hold the bleach and pass the salt!Gary M. Bokoch
The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 N. Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA. bokoch@scripps.edu
The current paradigm is that reactive oxygen species produced by leukocytes directly kill bacteria. Data in a recent Nature article belie that simplicity.
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