Tolerance of a phage element by Streptococccus pneumoniae leads to a fitness defect 1 during colonization 2 3
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during colonization 2 3 Hilary K. DeBardeleben1 , Elena S. Lysenko1, Ankur B. Dalia3, and Jeffrey N. Weiser1,2# 4 5 Departments of Microbiology1 and Pediatrics2, University of Pennsylvania School of 6 Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 7 Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology3, Tufts University School of Medicine, 8 Boston, Massachusetts 02111 9 10 Running Title: Pneumococcal phage affects colonization fitness 11 12 #Address for correspondence: 13 Jeffrey N. Weiser M.D. 14 402A Johnson Pavilion 15 Department of Microbiology and Pediatrics, 16 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6076 17 Tel 215-573-3511, Fax 215-898-9557 18 Email: [email protected] 19 20 21 JB Accepts, published online ahead of print on 9 May 2014
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تاریخ انتشار 2014