AN
INTERESTING PHENOMENON: FACULTATIVE INTRACELLULAR ORGANISMS.
Most
people are all too familiar with cheating bosses, heads-of-departments, heads-of-states,
in general, the phenomenon of the unfaithful leaders. Some countries have been
particularly so hit that they have grown numb to news of theft,
daylight-robbery and looting of funds via educated opinions and the likes. In summary,
it’s no longer news!
It
is with surprise that I read this afternoon about certain bacterial organisms. They
have this crazy form of immunity that makes them untouchable, even by the
macrophages and neutrophils of the body’s immune system.
How
do they achieve this?
These
bacteria allow themselves to be phagocytosed (eaten up) by the white blood
cells (activated monocytes, now known as macrophages;
and neutrophils). You would think
that this would kill them, right? But it doesn’t end there because they prevent
the fusion of the phagosome to the lysosome in these cells. As a result of
this, they escape the host’s deadly hydrogen peroxide as well as superoxide
radicals.
Therefore,
the cells which should have killed them provides them immunity or safety.
Doesn’t
this remind you of something about your country? Well…if you aren’t a citizen
of an embezzling center, you might say it doesn’t. If you are, trust me, it
will remind you of leaders and their incessant desire for wealth, as well as
their perceived immunity provided by crime commissions designed to probe into
such leaders’ financial inconsistencies.
#Just Saying#
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