How Vibrio cholerae survive during starvation

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 180, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 123-131

  Wai, Sun Nyunt ^a   Mizunoe, Yoshimitsu ^a   Yoshida, Shin Ichi ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biofilm; Exopolysaccharide; Rugose colony; Starvation stress; Vibrio cholerae

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL COMPOSITION; GENOTYPE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STARVATION; STRESS; SURVIVAL; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 0032754143     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00454-1     Document Type: Short Survey

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