Abundance and co-occurrence of extracellular capsules increases environmental breadth: Implications for the emergence of pathogens

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2017, Pages

  Rendueles, Olaya ^a,b   Garcia Garcerà, Marc ^a,b   Néron, Bertrand ^a   Touchon, Marie ^a,b   Rocha, Eduardo P C ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; DATA BASE; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS DOSE; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; METAGENOME; MICROBIAL GENOME; MICROBIOME; MICROCAPSULE; NONHUMAN; PROFIT; SPECIES; VIRULENCE; BACTERIAL CAPSULE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; VIRULENCE;

EID: 85026892492     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006525     Document Type: Article

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