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Changing Pictures of Pathogenicity and Virulence
Bernard Dixon
New techniques and perspectives are aiding progress and finding answers, but raising new questions as well

West Nile Outbreak Renews Response Capability Questions

Rotavirus Vaccine Withdrawn from Use

Parasitic Brain Disease Crosses the Border

Lobster and Salmon Threatened on Northeastern U.S.-Canada Seaboard

Host Pump Protein Can Affect Drug Actions

Perspectives on Pathogens at ASM Centennial Symposium [PDF]
Jeffrey L. Fox
Malaria, TB, and the upstart AIDS present immense challenges but are also stimulating dazzling new approaches to study them

Signature-Tagged Mutagenesis Helps Identify Virulence Genes [PDF]
Jacqueline E. Shea and David W. Holden
This genetic method offers researchers an efficient means for identifying virulence genes in bacterial pathogens

The Path to Salmonella [PDF]
Eduardo A. Groisman and Howard Ochman
Multiple horizontally-acquired genes are responsible for the specific virulence properties of Salmonella

Hay, Grain, and E. coli Revisited

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