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Cards of Virulence and the Global Virulome for Humans
Pathogenic microbes can be put into two general categories: those acquired from the environment and those acquired from other humans and animals. Microbes that are acquired from the environment typically can survive in environmental niches and also in their hosts. In contrast, microbes acquired f...
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Evolutionary Bioinformatics: Making Meaning of Microbes, Molecules, Maps
Evolution is key to our understanding the deluge of data being generated by massive DNA sequencing efforts, microarray analyses of gene expression, high-throughput structural biochemistry, proteomics, and systems biology. Yet much of contemporary bioinformatics is viewed simply as the province of...
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Mycobacteria and Macrophage Apoptosis: Complex Struggle for Survival
Although distinct, Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium avium both infect and survive in host macrophages. M. tuberculosis is more virulent, specifically adapted to humans, and grows poorly outside of the host. In contrast, M. avium can survive in the environme...
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