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Caenorhabditis elegans: plague bacteria biofilm blocks food intake.

Nature - 16 May 2002

Darby Creg, Hsu Jennifer W, Ghori Nafisa, Falkow Stanley

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Bubonic plague is transmitted to mammals, including humans, by the bites of fleas whose digestive tracts are blocked by a mass of the bacterium Yersinia pestis. In these fleas, the plague-causing bacteria are surrounded by an extracellular matrix of unknown composition, and the blockage depends on a group of bacterial genes known as the hmsHFRS operon. Here we show that Y. pestis creates an hmsHFRS-dependent...

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PMID: 12015591
DOI: 10.1038/417243a

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