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Tuning of the Lethal Response to Multiple Stressors with a Single-Site Mutation during Clinical Infection by Staphylococcus aureus
The agr system of Staphylococcus aureus promotes invasion of host tissues, and as expected, agents that block agr quorum sensing have anti-infective properties. Paradoxically, agr-defective mutants are frequently recovered from patients, especially those persistently infected with S. aureus. We foun...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5654930/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29066545 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mBio.01476-17 |