Editorial: What does not kill you makes you stronger: Interactions between environmental stresses and microbial virulence

Authors

Liang Wang, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Ling-Jun Zhan
Michael J. Wise

Document Type

Editorial

Publication Title

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volume

13

Publisher

Frontiers

School

Centre for Precision Health / School of Medical and Health Sciences

Funders

Xuzhou Key R&D Plan Social Development Project (Grant No. KC22300) / Jiangsu Qinglan Project (2022)

Comments

Wang, L., Zhan, L. J., & Wise, M. J. (2023). What does not kill you makes you stronger: Interactions between environmental stresses and microbial virulence. Frontiers in Microbiology, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.1127058

Abstract

The intriguing sit-and-wait hypothesis predicts that “virulence should be positively correlated with durability in the external environment because high durability reduces the dependence of transmission on host mobility” (Walther and Ewald, 2004) (Figure 1). Since the hypothesis was first proposed in the late 20th century (Ewald, 1983), both theoretical and computational studies have been reporting the relationships between environmental durability and microbial virulence (Sundberg et al., 2014; Wang et al., 2017, 2018, 2019a,b, 2020; Rafaluk-Mohr, 2019; Li et al., 2021) [...].

DOI

10.3389/fmicb.2022.1127058

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