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Science 18 June 1999:
Vol. 284. no. 5422, pp. 1916 - 1917
DOI: 10.1126/science.284.5422.1916
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AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MICROBIOLOGY MEETING:
Microbes Feature as Pathogens and Pals at Gathering

Evelyn Strauss

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS--Unlike Leeuwenhoek, who guarded the lens that best magnified the "wee animalcules" that he first saw, today's microbiologists enthusiastically broadcast their methods and their findings. At the American Society for Microbiology meeting, held here from 30 May to 3 June, about 14,000 of the researchers assembled to discuss findings on topics ranging from a novel protection against Leishmania to communication by gut bacteria.

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