Severe infections emerge from the microbiome by adaptive evolution
Bernadette Young, Chieh‐Hsi Wu, Nicola Claire Gordon, Kevin Cole, James Richard Price, Elian Liu, Anna E. Sheppard, Sanuki Perera, Jane Charlesworth, Tanya Golubchik, Zamin Iqbal, Rory J. Bowden, Ruth C. Massey, John Paul, Derrick W. Crook, , Daniel J. Wilson
Severe S. aureus infections arise from the nasal microbiome through adaptive evolution, with specific mutations enriched in infecting bacteria compared to colonizing ones.
eLife · Dec 19, 2017Peer-reviewedGenomics