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

Front Microbiol. 2023 Jan 9:13:1127058. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.1127058. eCollection 2022.

Liang Wang^{1

2}, Ling-Jun Zhan^{3

4}, Michael J Wise^{5

6}

¹ Laboratory Medicine, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital (Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences), Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
² Centre for Precision Health, School of Medical and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Perth, WA, Australia.
³ Beijing Key Laboratory for Animal Models of Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Beijing, China.
⁴ Institute of Laboratory Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Comparative Medicine Center, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
⁵ Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia.
⁶ The Marshall Centre for Infectious Diseases Research and Training, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia.

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Keywords: durability; environmental stress; microbial virulence; sit-and-wait hypothesis; transmission.

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This study was supported by Xuzhou Key R&D Plan Social Development Project (Grant No. KC22300) and Jiangsu Qinglan Project (2022).