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Quorum-sensing autoinducers resuscitate dormant Vibrio cholerae in environmental water samples.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 11 Jun 2013
Bari S M Nayeemul, Roky M Kamruzzaman, Mohiuddin M, Kamruzzaman M, Mekalanos John J, Faruque Shah M
Abstract excerpt
Cholera epidemics have long been known to spread through water contaminated with human fecal material containing the toxigenic bacterium Vibrio cholerae. However, detection of V. cholerae in water is complicated by the existence of a dormant state in which the organism remains viable, but resists cultivation on routine bacteriological media. Growth in the mammalian intestine has been reported to trigger...
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