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Determination of the transcriptome of Vibrio cholerae during intraintestinal growth and midexponential phase in vitro.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 4 Feb 2003
Xu Qing, Dziejman Michelle, Mekalanos John J
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Vibrio cholerae is the etiologic bacterial agent of cholera, a severe diarrheal disease endemic in much of the developing world. The V. cholerae genome contains 3,890 genes distributed between a large and a small chromosome. Although the large chromosome encodes the majority of recognizable gene products and virulence determinants, the small chromosome carries a disproportionate number of hypothetical genes....
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