A reservoir of drug-resistant pathogenic bacteria in asymptomatic hosts.

The population genetics of pathogenic bacteria has been intensively studied in order to understand the spread of disease and the evolution of virulence and drug resistance. However, much less attention has been paid to bacterial carriage populations, which inhabit hosts without producing disease. Si...

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Main Authors: Gabriel G Perron, Sylvain Quessy, Graham Bell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2581806?pdf=render