Decomposing virulence to understand bacterial clearance in persistent infections

The relationship between virulence and pathogen clearance is not well understood. Here, using bacterial infections in Drosophila melanogaster as a model system, the authors demonstrate an approach to disentangle the drivers of virulence and assess their relation to pathogen clearance rate.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Beatriz Acuña Hidalgo, Luís M. Silva, Mathias Franz, Roland R. Regoes, Sophie A. O. Armitage
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32118-1