Integration of vibrio vulnificus into marine aggregates and its subsequent uptake by crassostrea virginica oysters

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1454-1458

  Froelich, Brett ^a,b   Ayrapetyan, Mesrop ^a   Oliver, James D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PATHOGENS; COMPETITIVE EXPERIMENTS; CRASSOSTREA VIRGINICA; EXOCELLULAR POLYMERS; IN-VITRO; INORGANICS; MARINE AGGREGATES; NON-AGGREGATED; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS;

BACTERIA; EXPERIMENTS; MOLLUSCS; SHELLFISH;

AGGREGATES;

SEA WATER;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENOTYPE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; OYSTER CULTURE; PATHOGENICITY;

ANIMAL; AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CRASSOSTREA; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; CRASSOSTREA; GENOTYPE; SEAWATER; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS;

EID: 84874675519     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.03095-12     Document Type: Article

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