Cholera stool bacteria repress chemotaxis to increase infectivity

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 417-426

  Butler, Susan M ^a,f   Nelson, Eric J ^a   Chowdhury, Nityananda ^c   Faruque, Shah M ^c   Calderwood, Stephen B ^d,e   Camilli, Andrew ^a,b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEW PROTEIN; PROTEIN CHEW1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHEMOTAXIS; CHOLERA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FECES; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHEMOTAXIS; CHOLERA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; DOWN-REGULATION; FECES; GENES, BACTERIAL; SEQUENCE DELETION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE O1;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 33645283081     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05096.x     Document Type: Article

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