A colonization factor links Vibrio cholerae environmental survival and human infection

Nature

Volumn 438, Issue 7069, 2005, Pages 863-866

  Kirn, Thomas J ^a,b   Jude, Brooke A ^a   Taylor, Ronald K ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; DISEASES; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; PROTEINS;

HUMAN INFECTION; INTESTINAL EPITHELIUM;

BACTERIOLOGY;

N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE;

MEDICINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CHOLERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; INTESTINE MUCOSA; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TRANSPOSON; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; VIBRIO; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 28644442881     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04249     Document Type: Article

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