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Loss of the Acetate Switch in Vibrio vulnificus Enhances Predation Defense against Tetrahymena pyriformis.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 25 Jan 2022
Rasheedkhan Regina Viduthalai, Noorian Parisa, Sim Clarence Bo Wen, Constancias Florentin, Kaliyamoorthy Eganathan, Booth Sean C, Espinoza-Vergara Gustavo, Rice Scott A, McDougald Diane
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Vibrio vulnificus is an opportunistic human pathogen and autochthonous inhabitant of coastal marine environments, where the bacterium is under constant predation by heterotrophic protists or protozoans. As a result of this selection pressure, genetic variants with antipredation mechanisms are selected for and persist in the environment. Such natural variants may also be pathogenic to animal or human hosts, making...
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