Abstract
Being a germ isn't easy. Bacteria need tightly scripted genomes orchestrating precise functions to compete in a crowded microbial world. A lone strain may infect a sterile site in a bigger organism and escape competition, but it may then attract a lethal host response and antibiotic therapy.The strain of Enterococcus faecalis described by Arias et al. in this issue of the Journal 1 escaped the competing bacteria of its usual bowel habitat by infecting a patient's hemodialysis catheter site. It alone kept growing from catheter tips and blood cultures despite catheter removals and reinsertions.2 Susceptibility tests showed that the initial . . .
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