Thursday 11 April 2019

Researchers uncover how innocuous gut bacteria mutated to become deadly blood infectors

A team of researchers from several institutions in the U.S. has unveiled the evolutionary process that transformed a common type of human gut bacteria into a deadly infectious agent. In their paper published in Science Translational Medicine, the group describes their study of Enterococcus faecalis and its recent evolutionary history.

* This article was originally published here