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2,3-butanediol synthesis and the emergence of the Vibrio cholerae El Tor biotype.
Infection and immunity - 1 Dec 2006
Yoon Sang Sun, Mekalanos John J
Abstract excerpt
Vibrio cholerae is an aquatic bacterium that causes the severe diarrheal disease cholera. V. cholerae strains of the O1 serogroup exist as two biotypes, classical and El Tor. Toxigenic strains of the El Tor biotype emerged to cause the seventh pandemic of cholera in 1961 and subsequently displaced strains of the classical biotype both in the environment and as a cause of cholera within a decade. The factors that...
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