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The Campylobacter jejuni stringent response controls specific stress survival and virulence-associated phenotypes.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Apr 2005
Gaynor Erin C, Wells Derek H, MacKichan Joanna K, Falkow Stanley
Abstract excerpt
Campylobacter jejuni is a highly prevalent food-borne pathogen that causes diarrhoeal disease in humans. A natural zoonotic, it must overcome significant stresses both in vivo and during transmission despite the absence of several traditional stress response genes. Although relatively little is understood about its mechanisms of pathogenesis, its ability to interact with and invade human intestinal epithelial...
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