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Role of iron in human serum resistance of the clinical and environmental Vibrio vulnificus genotypes.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Dec 2007
Bogard Ryan W, Oliver James D
Abstract excerpt
We recently reported a simple PCR procedure that targets a sequence variation of the virulence-correlated gene locus vcg. It was found that 90% of all clinical isolates possessed the vcgC sequence variant, while 93% of all environmental isolates possessed the vcgE sequence variant. Here we report that the clinical genotype of Vibrio vulnificus is significantly better able to survive in human serum than is the...
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