A Commensal Bacterium Promotes Virulence of an Opportunistic Pathogen via Cross-Respiration

Bacteria rarely inhabit infection sites alone, instead residing in diverse, multispecies communities. Despite this fact, bacterial pathogenesis studies primarily focus on monoculture infections, overlooking how community interactions influence the course of disease. In this study, we used global mut...

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Main Authors: Apollo Stacy, Derek Fleming, Richard J. Lamont, Kendra P. Rumbaugh, Marvin Whiteley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2016-06-01
Series:mBio
Online Access:http://mbio.asm.org/cgi/content/full/7/3/e00782-16