Adaptation to the environment: Streptococcus pneumoniae, a paradigm for recombination‐mediated genetic plasticity?
Open Access
- 1 January 2000
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Molecular Microbiology
- Vol. 35 (2) , 251-259
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01718.x
Abstract
Genetic plasticity plays a central role in the biology of the human pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae. This is illustrated by the existence of at least 90 different capsular types (the polysaccharide...Keywords
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