Watched lectures on bacterial injection systems, lysosomal avoidance mechanisms with emphasis on EHEC and EPEC strains. Another bacteria, Listeria Monocytogenes is a tough little bacteria that avoids the lysosome by secreting a protein that dissolves the phagosomal membrane from pinocytosis and swims around in the cytoplasm. It's frequently in the news, check out google news. Avoid soft cheeses if you have a compromised immune system (and always cook your ground beef all the way through to avoid EHEC). Here's another good webpage that shows the various evolutionary tactics that bacteria have developed to enter us, avoid our immune systems, and to replicate.

Going to call both Mikron and Martin Microscopes to order the Motic BA450, see who can deliver the most quickly and at the best price.
- posted by Aargau @ 12:40 AM