Bacterial cooperation in the wild and in the clinic: Are pathogen social behaviours relevant outside the laboratory?

Individual bacterial cells can communicate via quorum sensing, cooperate to harvest nutrients from their environment, form multicellular biofilms, compete over resources and even kill one another. When the environment that bacteria inhabit is an animal host, these social behaviours mediate virulence...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Harrison, Freya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: WILEY-VCH Verlag 2013
Materias:
Prospects & Overviews
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4267416/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23281188
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bies.201200154

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4267416/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23281188
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bies.201200154

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