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Bacterial toxins: Offensive, defensive, or something else altogether?

  • Justine K. Rudkin,

    Affiliations School of Microbiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, APC Microbiome Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3044-0459

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  • Rachel M. McLoughlin,

    Affiliation Host-Pathogen Interactions Group, School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

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  • Andrew Preston,

    Affiliation Department of Biology and Biochemistry and the Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath, United Kingdom

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1489-280X

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  • Ruth C. Massey

    * E-mail: ruth.massey@bristol.ac.uk

    Affiliations Department of Biology and Biochemistry and the Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath, United Kingdom, School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8154-4039

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Bacterial toxins: Offensive, defensive, or something else altogether?

  • Justine K. Rudkin, 
  • Rachel M. McLoughlin, 
  • Andrew Preston, 
  • Ruth C. Massey
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  • Published: September 21, 2017
  • https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1006452
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