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Within‐Host Evolution for the Invasiveness of Commensal Bacteria: an Experimental Study of Bacteremias Resulting fromHaemophilus influenzaeNasal Carriage
31 Aug 2007
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BACKGROUND: Many bacteria responsible for clinically relevant disease reside harmlessly in a large fraction of humans. Three explanations have been proposed to account for why these normally commensal bacteria occasionally cause invasive disease: host susceptibility, stochasticity in the host-bacteria interaction, and the evolution of invasive mutants in colonized hosts. Here we test the third of these hypotheses...
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