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Patience Mensa
Researcher at University of Oxford
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Citations - 1773
Patience Mensa is an academic researcher from University of Oxford. The author has contributed to research in topics: Shigella & Pathogenic Escherichia coli. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 1587 citations.
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Sex and virulence in Escherichia coli: an evolutionary perspective
Thierry Wirth,Daniel Falush,Ruiting Lan,Frances M. Colles,Patience Mensa,Lothar H. Wieler,Helge Karch,Peter R. Reeves,Martin C. J. Maiden,Howard Ochman,Mark Achtman +10 more
TL;DR: The evolution of virulence is linked to bacterial sex because rates of evolution have accelerated in pathogenic lineages, culminating in highly virulent organisms whose genomic contents are altered frequently by increased rates of homologous recombination.