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Cooperative Metabolic Adaptations in the Host Can Favor Asymptomatic Infection and Select for Attenuated Virulence in an Enteric Pathogen

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0 Published in 2018 at "Cell"

DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.07.016

Abstract: Pathogen virulence exists on a continuum. The strategies that drive symptomatic or asymptomatic infections remain largely unknown. We took advantage of the concept of lethal dose 50 (LD50) to ask which component of individual non-genetic variation… read more here.

Keywords: dietary iron; pathogen; cooperative metabolic; virulence ... See more keywords