Going against the grain: Chemotaxis and infection in Vibrio cholerae

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 611-620

  Butler, Susan M ^a   Camilli, Andrew ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; BACTERIAL VACCINE; CHEA KINASE; CHEW PROTEIN; CHOLERA TOXIN; DEFENSIN; MOLECULAR MOTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIBRIO CHOLERAE VACCINE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BACTERIUM PILUS; CELL MOTILITY; CHEMOTAXIS; CHOLERA; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIARRHEA; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOGENICITY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NAUSEA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SANITATION; VACCINATION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WATER CONTAMINATION;

CHEMOTAXIS; CHOLERA; FLAGELLA; HUMANS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRULENCE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; VIBRIO; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 22944444886     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1207     Document Type: Review

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