Cell differentiation defines acute and chronic infection cell types in Staphylococcus aureus
A central question to biology is how pathogenic bacteria initiate acute or chronic infections. Here we describe a genetic program for cell-fate decision in the opportunistic human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus, which generates the phenotypic bifurcation of the cells into two genetically identical b...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
2017-09-01
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Series: | eLife |
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Online Access: | https://elifesciences.org/articles/28023 |