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The Abacus 2.0 supercomputer helps discover a previously unknown infection route used by the bacteria that cause the shigellosis, an intestinal infectious disease characterized by bloody diarrhea.<\/span><\/p>\n The bacteria that cause the shigella intestinal disease use a toxin that exploits a physical force in the membrane of cells. Though difficult to block, it is possible to fight with nanoparticles exploiting the same force. <\/span><\/p>\n An enormous number of diseases are a result of bacterial and virus infections. These pathogens gain entry into cells of the body through several routes. A new study jointly led by EPFL now reports the discovery of a previously unknown infection route used by the bacteria that cause the shigellosis, an intestinal infectious disease characterized by bloody diarrhea. In the newly discovered mechanism, the Shigella<\/em> bacteria exploits a generic force that is created by the fluctuations of the cell\u2019s own plasma membrane. The work is published in ACS Nano<\/em><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n The study was carried out by John Ipsen <\/a>at the University of Southern Denmark, Ludger Johannes at the Institut Curie in France and Julian Shillcock at EPFL.<\/span><\/p>\n See also: S\u00e5dan angriber diarre-bakterier<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Abacus 2.0 supercomputer helps discover a previously unknown infection route used by the bacteria that cause the shigellosis, an intestinal infectious disease characterized by bloody diarrhea. The bacteria that cause the shigella intestinal disease use a toxin Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"news-category":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1554"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1554"},{"taxonomy":"news-category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-category?post=1554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}