Colonizing opportunistic pathogens (COPs): The beasts in all of us
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1 Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University, Washington DC, United States of America, 2 Division of Pathogen Genomics, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America, 3 Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America, 4 Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America
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