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. 2013 Apr;81(4):1129–1139. doi: 10.1128/IAI.01124-12

Fig 7.

Fig 7

Hypothetical graph questioning the possibility of an uncanny valley of XO activity in which an intermediate amount of XO activity might be worse for the host than no XO activity (left side of curve) or high XO activity (right side of curve). The concept of the uncanny valley was proposed by Masahiro Mori in an essay in 1970 and is adapted here to microbial pathogenesis.