“…Of note, research on lncRNAs in bacterial infection is still at its infancy, which might explain, why so far, bacterial manipulation of lncRNA expression to the advantage of the pathogen has not been discovered. The application of specialized RNA-seq and cell sorting approaches enabling the dissection of the strategies of bacteria inside or at host cells they physically interact with (Schulte, Heinrich, Janga, Schmeck, & Vazquez, 2018;Westermann et al, 2016), could help to determine lncRNA-based bacterial virulence strategies.…”