An ace up the sleeve of the cholera bacterium

Nature Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 853-855

  Richardson, Stephen H ^a   Wozniak, Daniel J ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN;

BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CHOLERA; GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIOPHAGES; CHOLERA; CHOLERA TOXIN; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0029840468     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0896-853     Document Type: Review

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