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SUBMITTER: Felden B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3053349 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Felden Brice B Vandenesch François F Bouloc Philippe P Romby Pascale P
PLoS pathogens 20110310 3
Staphylococcus aureus is a major human pathogen causing a wide spectrum of nosocomial and community-associated infections with high morbidity and mortality. S. aureus generates a large number of virulence factors whose timing and expression levels are precisely tuned by regulatory proteins and RNAs. The aptitude of bacteria to use RNAs to rapidly modify gene expression, including virulence factors in response to stress or environmental changes, and to survive in a host is an evolving concept. He ...[more]