Unique sense of ‘touch’ gives a prolific bacterium its ability to infect anything

19 November 2014

One of the world’s most prolific bacteria, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, manages to afflict humans, animals and even plants by way of a mechanism not before seen in any infectious microorganism — a sense of touch.
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