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Medical microbiology

mutations, often losses of function, that improve fitness inside a host rather than adding new virulence genes.

In medical microbiology, pathoadaptive mutation refers to mutations, often losses of function, that improve fitness inside a host rather than adding new virulence genes. This meaning comes from Sokurenko (1999) in Trends in Microbiology.[1]

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fitness4 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs function5 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, five constructs host2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs

References

Sokurenko, E. V., Hasty, D. L., & Dykhuizen, D. E. (1999). Pathoadaptive mutations: gene loss and variation in bacterial pathogens. Trends in Microbiology, 7(5), 191-195. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0966-842x(99)01493-6

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