Origins of pandemic clones from environmental gene pools
B. J. Shapiro, I. Levade, G. Kovacikova, R. K. Taylor, S. Almagro-Moreno
The paper identifies virulence adaptive polymorphisms (VAPs) in environmental bacterial populations that are required for the transition to pathogenicity in Vibrio cholerae.
bioRxiv · Sep 12, 2016Microbiology