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Metabolic and fitness determinants for in vitro growth and intestinal colonization of the bacterial pathogen Campylobacter jejuni.
PLoS biology - 1 May 2017
Gao Beile, Vorwerk Hanne, Huber Claudia, Lara-Tejero Maria, Mohr Juliane, Goodman Andrew L, Eisenreich Wolfgang, Galán Jorge E, Hofreuter Dirk
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Campylobacter jejuni is one of the leading infectious causes of food-borne illness around the world. Its ability to persistently colonize the intestinal tract of a broad range of hosts, including food-producing animals, is central to its epidemiology since most infections are due to the consumption of contaminated food products. Using a highly saturated transposon insertion library combined with next-generation...
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