Disease tolerance research points to treatments that limit infection damage instead of killing microbes

Two identical mice experience the same deadly infection. One survives, while the other dies. Why? Scientists long thought the answer lay in the pathogen burden—the amount of harmful bacteria present in the body. They assumed that in the mice that died, the pathogen burden had become insurmountable, overpowering the immune system.

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