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The worm turns for antimicrobial discovery

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High-throughput screening using an in vivo infection model identifies nontraditional antimicrobials.

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Figure 1: Compounds that promote survival of Caenorhabditis elegans after persistent infection with Enterococcus faecalis can either prevent persistence of the pathogen in the intestine or enable the host to tolerate chronic innocuous intestinal colonization.

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