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The study by researchers from Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, found that two deadly meningitis-causing bacteria can mount countermeasures to protect themselves from increasing temperatures of the body and escape from the immune system

Photo: Ulf Sirborn “Our results indicate that these temperature sensing RNATs create an additional layer of protection that helps the bacteria colonize their normal habitat in the nose and throat,” says the paper’s first author Hannes Eichner, PhD student at the same department. “Interestingly, we saw that these RNATs do not possess any sequence similarity, but all retain the same thermosensing ability, which indicates that these RNATs have evolved independently to sense the same temper...