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    Comparison of Francisella tularensis genomes reveals evolutionary events associated with the emergence of human pathogenic strains

    Francisella tularensis subspecies tularensis and holarctica are pathogenic to humans, whereas the two other subspecies, novicida and mediasiatica, rarely cause disease. To uncover the factors that allow subspecie...

    Laurence Rohmer, Christine Fong, Simone Abmayr, Michael Wasnick in Genome Biology (2007)

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    Aminoglycoside antibiotics induce bacterial biofilm formation

    Bacteria commonly form adherent cell aggregates or biofilms in which they become resistant to killing by antibiotics. Now in a surprising development, commonly used aminoglycoside antibiotics at subinhibitory ...

    Lucas R. Hoffman, David A. D'Argenio, Michael J. MacCoss, Zhaoying Zhang in Nature (2005)

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    The Pathogenic Lifestyle of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Model Systems of Virulence

    It is a constant challenge for the microbiologist not to let a human’s-eye view of the world occlude a bacterium’s-eye view71. From a human perspective, Pseudomonas aeruginosa seizes the opportunity to proliferat...

    David A. D’Argenio in Pseudomonas (2004)