Type III Secretion Is Essential for the Rapidly Fatal Diarrheal Disease Caused by Non-O1, Non-O139 Vibrio cholerae
Cholera is a severe diarrheal disease typically caused by O1 serogroup strains of Vibrio cholerae. The pathogenicity of all pandemic V. cholerae O1 strains relies on two critical virulence factors: cholera toxin, a potent enterotoxin, and toxin coregulated pilus (TCP), an intestinal colonization fac...
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | English |
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American Society of Microbiology
2011
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3111608/ |