Immune subversion and quorum-sensing shape the variation in infectious dose among bacterial pathogens.
Many studies have been devoted to understand the mechanisms used by pathogenic bacteria to exploit human hosts. These mechanisms are very diverse in the detail, but share commonalities whose quantification should enlighten the evolution of virulence from both a molecular and an ecological perspectiv...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2012-02-01
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| Series: | PLoS Pathogens |
| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22319444/?tool=EBI |