Role of selection in the emergence of lineages and the evolution of virulence in Neisseria meningitidis.

Neisseria meningitis is a human commensal bacterium that occasionally causes life-threatening disease. As with a number of other bacterial pathogens, meningococcal populations comprise distinct lineages, which persist over many decades and during global spread in the face of high rates of recombinat...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Buckee, C, Jolley, K, Recker, M, Penman, B, Kriz, P, Gupta, S, Maiden, M
Materialtyp: Journal article
Språk:English
Publicerad: 2008