Fundamentals Of Microbiology 10th Edition by Jeffrey Pommerville

Exercise 21

Phagocytes have been described as "bloodhounds searching for a scent" as they browse through the tissues of the body. The scent they usually seek is a chemotactic factor, a peptide released by bacterial cells. Does it strike you as unusual that bacterial cells would release a substance to attract the "bloodhound" that will ventually lead to the bacterial cell's demise Explain.