Role of flagella in virulence of the coral pathogen Vibrio coralliilyticus

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 5704-5707

  Meron, Dalit ^a   Efrony, Rotem ^b   Johnson, Wesley R ^c   Schaefer, Amy L ^d   Morris, Pamela J ^c   Rosenberg, Eugene ^b   Greenberg, E Peter ^d   Banin, Ehud ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY;

BACTERIAL DISEASE; CHEMOTAXIS; CORAL BLEACHING; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MUCUS; MUTATION; VIRULENCE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLEACHING; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL; FLAGELLUM; GENE; MUCUS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; VIBRIO; VIBRIO CORALLIILYTICUS;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; FLAGELLA; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; LOCOMOTION; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; VIBRIO; VIRULENCE;

ANTHOZOA; VIBRIO CORALLIILYTICUS;

EID: 69449105733     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00198-09     Document Type: Article

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