Article
Phenotypic Heterogeneity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Microbiology spectrum - 1 Nov 2016
Dhar Neeraj, McKinney John, Manina Giulia
Abstract excerpt
The interaction between the host and the pathogen is extremely complex and is affected by anatomical, physiological, and immunological diversity in the microenvironments, leading to phenotypic diversity of the pathogen. Phenotypic heterogeneity, defined as nongenetic variation observed in individual members of a clonal population, can have beneficial consequences especially in fluctuating stressful environmental...
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