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Editorial
. 2021 Nov;167(10):001129.
doi: 10.1099/mic.0.001129.

Microbial Musings - October 2021

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Microbial Musings - October 2021

Gavin H Thomas. Microbiology (Reading). 2021 Nov.
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Fig. 1.
Fig. 1.
The three faces of E. coli pathotypes responding to d-serine, created by Eliza Wolfson. EHEC (left) is stressed by d-serine, UPEC (centre) is fine with it, while NMEC (right), with two copies of the dsdCXA catabolic operon, gobbles it up. Source: Eliza Wolfson (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 2020).

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