A colonization factor links Vibrio cholerae environmental survival and human infection
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Vibrio cholerae, a Gram-negative bacterium is often found attached to exoskeletons of zooplanktons, which enhances chances of its survival, do not colonize humans but require strategies for survival in the environment. To support this hypothesis a single protein required for efficient intestinal colonization that mediates attachment to both zooplankton and human cells by binding to a sugar present on both surfaces is identified.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2005
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Virus on virus infects bacterium
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Many bacteria carry DNA segments, known as pathogenicity islands. New findings about how bacteria acquire pathogenicity islands during evolution are presented by Karaolis and colleagues. They have shown that Vibrio cholerae pathogenicity island (VPI) is a filamentous bacteriophage that can transit itself between some strains of V. cholerae.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1999
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The major Vibrio cholerae autoinducer and its virulence factor production
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The purification of cholerae autoinducer-1 (CAI-1) and its identification as a new type of bacterial autoinducer are described.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2007
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