Temperature-regulated microcolony formation by Burkholderia pseudomallei requires pilA and enhances association with cultured human cells.

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Burkholderia pseudomallei is the causative agent of melioidosis, a potentially fatal disease that is endemic to Northern Australia and Southeast Asia and is acquired from soil or water. Adherence of B. pseudomallei 08 to cultured cells increases dramatically following prior growth at 30 degrees C or less compared to that following prior growth at 37 degrees C. Here, we show that this occurs almost entirely as the...

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