Prescott's Microbiology
Prescott's Microbiology
10th Edition
ISBN: 9781259281594
Author: Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood Adjunt Professor Lecturer, Christopher J. Woolverton Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 35, Problem 3CHI
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Infection may take place when microbes enter a host and compete for nutritional resources. Microbes need a suitable environment to live in. Inside the host, microbes use various strategies to survive. These are collectively termed as virulence factors. Microorganism invades the host using such virulence factors.

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