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Making a pathogen? Evaluating the impact of protist predation on the evolution of virulence in <i>Serratia marcescens</i>

2022-06-18

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Opportunistic pathogens are environmental microbes that are generally harmless and only occasionally cause disease. Unlike obligate pathogens, the growth and survival of opportunistic pathogens does not rely on host infection or transmission. Their versatile lifestyles make it challenging to decipher how and why virulence has evolved in opportunistic pathogens. The Coincidental Evolution Hypothesis (CEH) postulate...

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Literature Corpus work: 8da9324d-8bf5-5d89-a62b-ee2341a43ed2
DOI: 10.1101/2022.06.17.496625

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