Investigating Mechanisms of Susceptibility to Phage Predation in the Hospital-Acquired Lung Reservoir Pathogen Mycobacterium abscessus

The emerging infectious agent, Mycobacterium abscessus (Mab), a close relative to the deadliest infectious pathogen in the world, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is a major clinical problem and causes 80% of US pulmonary infections from rapid growing mycobacteria in hospital patients. Due to intrinsic a...

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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2047/D20416225