'Blooming' in the gut: How dysbiosis might contribute to pathogen evolution

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 277-284

  Stecher, Bärbel ^a   Maier, Lisa ^b   Hardt, Wolf Dietrich ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTEROIDES; DIET; ECOSYSTEM; ENTERITIS; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINE FLORA; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DIET; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; IMMUNITY; INTESTINES; MAMMALS; METAGENOME; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA;

EID: 84876408419     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2989     Document Type: Review

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