They are what you eat: Shaping of viral populations through nutrition and consequences for virulence

Rebekah Honce; Stacey Schultz-Cherry

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1008711

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They are what you eat: Shaping of viral populations through nutrition and consequences for virulence

Rebekah Honce,

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Integrated Program in Biomedical Sciences, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5633-9116

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Stacey Schultz-Cherry

* E-mail: stacey.schultz-cherry@stjude.org

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2021-727X

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They are what you eat: Shaping of viral populations through nutrition and consequences for virulence

Rebekah Honce,
Stacey Schultz-Cherry

Published: August 13, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008711

About the Authors

Rebekah Honce

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Integrated Program in Biomedical Sciences, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5633-9116

Stacey Schultz-Cherry

* E-mail: stacey.schultz-cherry@stjude.org

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2021-727X

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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