Antibiotics as intermicrobial signaling agents instead of weapons
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Antibiotics as intermicrobial signaling agents instead of weapons.
It has been widely assumed that the ecological function of antibiotics in nature is fighting against competitors. This made them a good example of the Darwinian struggle-for-life in the microbial world. Based on this idea, it also has been believed that antibiotics, even at subinhibitory concentrations, reduce virulence of bacterial pathogens. Herein, using a combination of genomic and function...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0608949103