Highlights of the Recent Advances in Microbial Control meeting in San Diego, and expansion of a gut pathogen by virulence factors that stimulate aerobic respiration.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, Michael Schmidt, and Michele Swanson.

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• Fred Neidhardt obituary
• Recent Advances in Microbial Control
• Science hero Bill Fenical
• Virulence factors and aerobic respiration (Science)
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