The evolution of pathogenic microorganisms. ‘Learning to be bad?

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  • Antonio de Vicente

Keywords:

evolution, microorganism, pathogenic

Abstract

How a pathogenic microorganism arises, how it becomes pathogenic or where it comes from, are issues to discuss here, because it seems logical to assume that the habitat was before the microorganism adapted to it; so if the host was before the pathogen, how does it take the step towards becoming pathogenic? Was it pathogenic to another host and adapts to a new host?, or was it commensal on that host and becomes pathogenic?, there are multiple examples of both options, of viruses that overcome a certain specific host barrier, as well as pathogenic strains of species usually commensal, such as the pathogenic strains of Escherichia coli

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2005-01-20

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The evolution of pathogenic microorganisms. ‘Learning to be bad?. (2005). Encuentros En La Biología, 100, 24-27. https://revistas.uma.es/index.php/enbio/article/view/18812