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

Extracellular capsules constitute the outermost layer of many bacteria, are major virulence factors, and affect antimicrobial therapies. They have been used as epidemiological markers and recently became vaccination targets. Despite the efforts to biochemically serotype capsules in a few model patho...

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Veröffentlicht in:PLoS pathogens 2017-07, Vol.13 (7)
Hauptverfasser: Rendueles, Olaya, Garcia-Garcerà, Marc, Néron, Bertrand, Touchon, Marie, Rocha, Eduardo P. C
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