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A Burkholderia pseudomallei colony variant necessary for gastric colonization.
mBio - 3 Feb 2015
Austin C R, Goodyear A W, Bartek I L, Stewart A, Sutherland M D, Silva E B, Zweifel A, Vitko N P, Tuanyok A, Highnam G, Mittelman D, Keim P, Schweizer H P, Vázquez-Torres A, Dow S W C, Voskuil M I
Abstract excerpt
UNLABELLED: Diverse colony morphologies are a hallmark of Burkholderia pseudomallei recovered from infected patients. We observed that stresses that inhibit aerobic respiration shifted populations of B. pseudomallei from the canonical white colony morphotype toward two distinct, reversible, yet relatively stable yellow colony variants (YA and YB). As accumulating evidence supports the importance of B....
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