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Transient Darwinian selection in Salmonella enterica serovar Paratyphi A during 450 years of global spread of enteric fever.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 19 Aug 2014
Zhou Zhemin, McCann Angela, Weill François-Xavier, Blin Camille, Nair Satheesh, Wain John, Dougan Gordon, Achtman Mark
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Multiple epidemic diseases have been designated as emerging or reemerging because the numbers of clinical cases have increased. Emerging diseases are often suspected to be driven by increased virulence or fitness, possibly associated with the gain of novel genes or mutations. However, the time period over which humans have been afflicted by such diseases is only known for very few bacterial pathogens, and the...
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