Effect of phage on the infectivity of Vibrio cholerae and emergence of genetic variants

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 76, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 5266-5273

  Shamim Hasan Zahid, M ^a   Nashir Udden, S M ^a   Faruque, A S G ^a   Calderwood, Stephen B ^b,c   Mekalanos, John J ^c   Faruque, Shah M ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; O1 ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOFILM; CELL POPULATION; CHOLERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIOPHAGES; CHOLERA; FECES; HUMANS; MICE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 55849127750     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00578-08     Document Type: Article

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