Affiliation:
1. W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health , Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Kimberly Davis works in the field of bacterial pathogenesis and studies heterogeneity in bacterial populations within host tissues. In this mSphere of Influence article, she reflects on how the paper “Stabilization of cooperative virulence by the expression of an avirulent phenotype” by M. Diard et al. (M. Diard et al.,
Nature
494:353–6, 2013, DOI:
10.1038/nature11913
) impacted the way she thinks about bacterial population dynamics and the costs and benefits of producing virulence factors during infection.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology