Within-Host Competition Drives Selection for the Capsule Virulence Determinant of Streptococcus pneumoniae
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- 13 July 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Current Biology
- Vol. 20 (13), 1222-1226
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2010.05.051
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