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RpoS-dependent stress response and exoenzyme production in Vibrio vulnificus.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Oct 2003
Hülsmann A, Rosche T M, Kong I-S, Hassan H M, Beam D M, Oliver J D
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Vibrio vulnificus is an estuarine bacterium capable of causing rapidly fatal infections through both ingestion and wound infection. Like other opportunistic pathogens, V. vulnificus must adapt to potentially stressful environmental changes while living freely in seawater, upon colonization of the oyster gut, and upon infection of such diverse hosts as humans and eels. In order to begin to understand the ability...
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