Virulence of an emerging pathogenic lineage of Vibrio nigripulchritudo is dependent on two plasmids

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 296-306

  Le Roux, Frédérique ^a,b   Labreuche, Yannick ^a   Davis, Brigid M ^b   Iqbal, Naeem ^c,d   Mangenot, Sophie ^e   Goarant, Cyrille ^f   Mazel, Didier ^c,d   Waldor, Matthew K ^b,g  

^a IFREMER   (France)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e DIF   (France)

^f Institut Pasteur de Nouvelle Caledonie Noumea   (New Caledonia)

^g HHMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NEW CALEDONIA; PATHOGENICITY; PENAEIDAE; PLASMID; VIBRIO; VIBRIOSIS; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; DNA, BACTERIAL; NEW CALEDONIA; PENAEIDAE; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIBRIO; VIBRIO INFECTIONS; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); LITOPENAEUS STYLIROSTRIS; VIBRIO NIGRIPULCHRITUDO;

EID: 79551469164     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02329.x     Document Type: Article

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