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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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2008
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