Examination of diverse toxin-coregulated pilus-positive Vibrio cholerae strains fails to demonstrate evidence for Vibrio pathogenicity island phage

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 2993-2999

  Faruque, Shah M ^a   Zhu, Jun ^b   Asadulghani, ^a   Kamruzzaman, M ^a   Mekalanos, John J ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOMYCIN C;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM PILUS; GENE TRANSFER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHAGE; RECEPTOR BINDING; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; TOXIN COREGULATED PILUS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO PATHOGENICITY ISLAND PHAGE;

BACTERIOPHAGES; CHOLERA TOXIN; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENOME, VIRAL; LYSOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, VIRUS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRION; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 0038701024     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.71.6.2993-2999.2003     Document Type: Article

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