Nature Communications (Jan 2017)

Global and local selection acting on the pathogen Stenotrophomonas maltophilia in the human lung

  • Hattie Chung,
  • Tami D. Lieberman,
  • Sara O. Vargas,
  • Kelly B. Flett,
  • Alexander J. McAdam,
  • Gregory P. Priebe,
  • Roy Kishony

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14078
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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The authors sequence the genomes of 552 bacterial isolates sampled across 23 sites of the lungs of a patient with cystic fibrosis, and identify bacterial genes under global and location-specific adaptation.