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A reservoir of drug-resistant pathogenic bacteria in asymptomatic hosts.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2008
Perron Gabriel G, Quessy Sylvain, Bell Graham
Abstract excerpt
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. Since new virulent strains that cause disease can be recruited from the carriage population of bacteria, our...
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