Nature Communications (Aug 2022)

Decomposing virulence to understand bacterial clearance in persistent infections

  • Beatriz Acuña Hidalgo,
  • Luís M. Silva,
  • Mathias Franz,
  • Roland R. Regoes,
  • Sophie A. O. Armitage

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32118-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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The relationship between virulence and pathogen clearance is not well understood. Here, using bacterial infections in Drosophila melanogaster as a model system, the authors demonstrate an approach to disentangle the drivers of virulence and assess their relation to pathogen clearance rate.