Bacteria make some common moves when setting up house in the lungs of people with cystic fibrosis, a new study finds.
A new study of
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
bacteria isolated from cystic fibrosis patients with chronic lung infections shows that the microbe may evolve similarly in everyone who contracts it, researchers reported online September 21 in
mBio
.
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