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VGJphi integration and excision mechanisms contribute to the genetic diversity of Vibrio cholerae epidemic strains.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 8 Feb 2011
Das Bhabatosh, Bischerour Julien, Barre François-Xavier
Abstract excerpt
Most strains of Vibrio cholerae are not pathogenic or cause only local outbreaks of gastroenteritis. Acquisition of the capacity to produce the cholera toxin results from a lysogenic conversion event due to a filamentous bacteriophage, CTX. Two V. cholerae tyrosine recombinases that normally serv...
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