Global and local selection acting on the pathogen Stenotrophomonas maltophilia in the human lung

The authors sequence the genomes of 552 bacterial isolates sampled across 23 sites of the lungs of a patient with cystic fibrosis, and identify bacterial genes under global and location-specific adaptation.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hattie Chung, Tami D. Lieberman, Sara O. Vargas, Kelly B. Flett, Alexander J. McAdam, Gregory P. Priebe, Roy Kishony
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14078