Catch 22: Immune Systems Protect Hosts, But Drive Bacterial Evolution (IMAGE)

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Catch 22: Immune Systems Protect Hosts, But Drive Bacterial Evolution

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A male house finch with conjunctivitis perched on a bird feeder. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 2 March 2018 issue of <i>Science</i>, published by AAAS. The paper, by A.E. Fleming-Davies at University of San Diego in San Diego, CA, and colleagues was titled, "Incomplete host immunity favors the evolution of virulence in an emergent pathogen."

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Marie Read

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