A journey into the brain: insight into how bacterial pathogens cross blood –brain barriers

Nature Reviews Microbiology 15, 149 (2017). doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2016.178 Authors: Mathieu Coureuil, Hervé Lécuyer, Sandrine Bourdoulous & Xavier Nassif The blood–brain barrier, which is one of the tightest barriers in the body, protects the brain from insults, such as infections. Indeed, only a few of the numerous blood-borne bacteria can cross the blood–brain barrier to cause meningitis. In this Review, we focus on invasive
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