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Accidental Virulence, Cryptic Pathogenesis, Martians, Lost Hosts, and the Pathogenicity of Environmental Microbes

Year: 2007

Type: article

Abstract: Why do only certain microbes have the capacity to be virulent, and why are certain microbes virulent only in certain hosts? These fundamental questions have shaped and directed the thinking of microbiologists and the field of microbial pathogenesis since the germ theory of disease was proposed in

Source: Eukaryotic Cell

DOI: 10.1128/ec.00308-07

Authors: Arturo Casadevall, Liise-anne Pirofski

Institution: Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Language: English

Topic: Legionella and Acanthamoeba research

Subfield: Endocrinology

Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Domain: Life Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W2162556334

FWCI: 3.923

Cites: 45

Cited by: 170

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