Efficient responses to host and bacterial signals during Vibrio cholerae colonization

Gut Microbes

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Rothenbacher, Francesca P ^a   Zhu, Jun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bile; Colonization; Environmental signals; Mucus; pH; Quorum sensing; V. cholerae; Virulence

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN; NITRIC OXIDE; SIALIC ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BILE; BIOFILM; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; MUCUS; NONHUMAN; OSMOLARITY; PATHOGENESIS; PH; QUORUM SENSING; REVIEW; TEMPERATURE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; ANIMAL; CHOLERA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHOLERA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; QUORUM SENSING; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 84891758614     PISSN: 19490976     EISSN: 19490984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/gmic.26944     Document Type: Review

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