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Infectious disease as an evolutionary paradigm.

The basic principles of genetics and evolution apply equally to human hosts and to emerging infections, in which foodborne outbreaks play an important and growing role. However, we are dealing with a very complicated coevolutionary process in which infectious agent outcomes range from mutual annihil...

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Autor principal: Lederberg, J
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 1997
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2640075/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9366592
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description The basic principles of genetics and evolution apply equally to human hosts and to emerging infections, in which foodborne outbreaks play an important and growing role. However, we are dealing with a very complicated coevolutionary process in which infectious agent outcomes range from mutual annihilation to mutual integration and resynthesis of a new species. In our race against microbial evolution, new molecular biology tools will help us study the past; education and a global public health perspective will help us deal better with the future.
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spelling pubmed-26400752009-05-20 Infectious disease as an evolutionary paradigm. Lederberg, J Emerg Infect Dis Research Article The basic principles of genetics and evolution apply equally to human hosts and to emerging infections, in which foodborne outbreaks play an important and growing role. However, we are dealing with a very complicated coevolutionary process in which infectious agent outcomes range from mutual annihilation to mutual integration and resynthesis of a new species. In our race against microbial evolution, new molecular biology tools will help us study the past; education and a global public health perspective will help us deal better with the future. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 1997 /pmc/articles/PMC2640075/ /pubmed/9366592 Text en
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