RT Book, Section
A1 Ryan, Kenneth J.
SR Print(0)
ID 1148673427
T1 Pathogenesis of Bacterial Infections
T2 Sherris Medical Microbiology, 7e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259859809
LK accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1148673427
RD 2024/04/20
AB Pathogenicity  is,  in  a  sense,  a  highly  skilled  trade,  and  only  a  tiny  minority  of  all  the  numberless  tons  of  microbes  on  the  earth  has  ever  involved  itself  in  it;  most  bacteria  are  busy  with  their  own  business,  browsing  and  recycling  the  rest  of  life.  Indeed,  pathogenicity  often  seems  to  me  a  sort  of  biological  accident  in  which  signals  are  misdirected  by  the  microbe  or  misinterpreted  by  the  host.—Lewis  Thomas,  The  Medusa  and  the  Snail