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Benefits and costs of a hypercapsule and the mechanism of its loss in a clinical isolate of <i>Acinetobacter baumannii</i>

2025-08-04

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Acinetobacter baumannii is an opportunistic pathogen in which capsule production is closely linked to immune evasion and environmental persistence. Recent studies have described two seemingly contradictory phenomena—increasing prevalence of capsule-overproducing clinical isolates and frequent isolation of capsule-deficient variants. The biological significance of these phenomena remains unclear. In this study, we...

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Literature Corpus work: 28125c45-a955-573e-af94-a14218f3a1b4
DOI: 10.1101/2025.08.04.668531

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