The prevalence of functional quorum-sensing systems in recently emerged Vibrio cholerae toxigenic strains

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 218-222

  Wang, Yunduan ^a,b   Wang, Hui ^a   Cui, Zhigang ^b   Chen, Haili ^a,b   Zhong, Zengtao ^a   Kan, Biao ^b   Zhu, Jun ^a,c  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 79954592073     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2010.00212.x     Document Type: Article

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