Transmissibility of cholera: In vivo-formed biofilms and their relationship to infectivity and persistence in the environment

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 103, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 6350-6355

  Faruque, Shah M ^a   Biswas, Kuntal ^a   Nashir Udden, S M ^a   Ahmad, Qazi Shafi ^a   Sack, David A ^a   Balakrish Nair, G ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholera epidemic; Conditionally viable environmental cells; Vibrio cholerae; Waterborne disease

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BIOFILMS; CHOLERA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; ENVIRONMENT; FECES; HUMANS; INTESTINES; NALIDIXIC ACID; RABBITS; STREPTOMYCIN; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 33646594449     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0601277103     Document Type: Article

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