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Intestinal epithelium of a drosophila infected orally by the Serratia marcescens bacterium. In green, a genetically marked enterocyte (intestinal cell) purges its damaged content in the lumen (inside space) of the intestine. The cell nuclei are shown in blue and the actin filaments are shown in red (at the bottom, filaments present in the visceral muscles and at the top, filament bundles below the brush border of the enterocytes). After observation of the first hours following infection by…

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20160113_0001
Intestinal epithelium of a drosophila infected orally by the Serratia marcescens bacterium

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