1.   Integral to this research was an understanding of how the healthy body provided its own defences against invading bacteria by developing anti-toxins.

2.   Amber is known to shield biological material not only from the destructive effects of moisture but from oxygen and invading bacteria.

3.   And, other respiratory diseases, like chronic bronchitis and emphysema, may be worsened by oral infections when the invading bacteria are inhaled.

4.   Autoimmune diseases occur when the immune system malfunctions and attacks the body in the same way it fights invading bacteria and viruses.

5.   In fact, lymphedema provides a veritable feast for invading bacteria.

6.   In most cases of infection, the body mobilizes immune cells to surround and digest invading bacteria.

7.   It burrows into individual red blood cells and attacks the genetic material of invading bacteria and viruses.

8.   Rheumatic fever is triggered by an invading bacterium that elicits antibodies from the immune system.

9.   The invading bacteria are answering the call of their own genes that signal them to colonize.

10.   The protein helps the bacteria enter healthy cells called macrophages, which normally kill invading bacteria, Sacchettini said.