The Vibrio cholerae type VI secretion system: Evaluating its role in the human disease cholera

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 1, Issue NOV, 2010, Pages

  Miyata, Sarah T ^a   Kitaoka, Maya ^a   Wieteska, Lukasz ^a   Frech, Christian ^b   Chen, Nansheng ^b   Pukatzki, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cholera; Type VI secretion system; Vibrio cholerae

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855769720     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2010.00117     Document Type: Article

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