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Vibrio cholerae accessory colonisation factor AcfC: a chemotactic protein with a role in hyperinfectivity.
Scientific reports - 30 May 2018
Valiente Esmeralda, Davies Cadi, Mills Dominic C, Getino Maria, Ritchie Jennifer M, Wren Brendan W
Abstract excerpt
Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor is an aquatic Gram-negative bacterium responsible for the current seventh pandemic of the diarrheal disease, cholera. A previous whole-genome analysis on V. cholerae O1 El Tor strains from the 2010 epidemic in Pakistan showed that all strains contained the V. cholerae pathogenicity island-1 and the accessory colonisation gene acfC (VC_0841). Here we show that acfC possess an open reading...
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