Molecular and evolutionary bases of within-patient genotypic and phenotypic diversity in Escherichia coli extraintestinal infections.

Although polymicrobial infections, caused by combinations of viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites, are being recognised with increasing frequency, little is known about the occurrence of within-species diversity in bacterial infections and the molecular and evolutionary bases of this diversity. We...

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Main Authors: Maxime Levert, Oana Zamfir, Olivier Clermont, Odile Bouvet, Sylvain Lespinats, Marie Claire Hipeaux, Catherine Branger, Bertrand Picard, Claude Saint-Ruf, Françoise Norel, Thierry Balliau, Michel Zivy, Hervé Le Nagard, Stéphane Cruveiller, Béatrice Chane-Woon-Ming, Susanna Nilsson, Ivana Gudelj, Katherine Phan, Thomas Ferenci, Olivier Tenaillon, Erick Denamur
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-09-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/20941353/pdf/?tool=EBI