TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Pathogenesis of Bacterial Infections A1 - Ryan, Kenneth J. Y1 - 2017 N1 - T2 - Sherris Medical Microbiology, 7e AB - Pathogenicity is, in a sense, a highly skilled trade, and only a tiny minority of all the numberless tons of microbes on the earth has ever involved itself in it; most bacteria are busy with their own business, browsing and recycling the rest of life. Indeed, pathogenicity often seems to me a sort of biological accident in which signals are misdirected by the microbe or misinterpreted by the host.—Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1148673427 ER -