Pandemic Vibrio cholerae acquired competitive traits from an environmental Vibrio species.

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Vibrio cholerae is a human pathogen that thrives in estuarine environments. Within the environment and human host, V. cholerae uses the type VI secretion system (T6SS) to inject toxic effectors into neighboring microbes and to establish its replicative niche. V. cholerae strains encode a wide variety of horizontally shared effectors, but pandemic isolates encode an identical set of distinct effectors. Effector...

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