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After being engulfed, the bacterium secretes virulence factors to degrade the phagosome.
At 8:58, however, after assessing the North Tower roof, a helicopter pilot advised the ESU team that they could not land on the roof, because"it is too engulfed in flames and heavy smoke condition."
In the kitchen is a planter of yellow tulips with pale-green markings engulfed by a mass of purple grape hyacinths.
Richard W. Noone predicts that on May 5, 2000, the planet's crust will shift and oceans will be frothed into "maelstroms of death"; Meade Ministries warns that the "world will soon be engulfed in a sticky white substance"; and the High Priestess of Morningland preaches that Christ will land a UFO "the size of Texas" in Long Beach, California.
Critics heap praise on O'Nan's latest, the gruesome tale of a man who returns to Wisconsin after the Civil War to find his hometown engulfed by a diphtheria epidemic and hemmed in at the edges by wildfires.