Toxin, toxin-coregulated pili, and the toxR regulon are essential for Vibrio Cholerae pathogenesis in humans

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 168, Issue 4, 1988, Pages 1487-1492

  Herrington, Deirdre A ^a   Hall, Robert H ^a   Losonsky, Genevieve ^a   Mekalanos, John J ^b   Taylor, Ronald K ^c   Levine, Myron M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BACTERIUM PILUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CHOLERA; CHOLERA TOXIN; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MUTATION; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0023736046     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: 15409538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.168.4.1487     Document Type: Article

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