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The role of toxin-coregulated pili in the pathogenesis of Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor.
Microbial pathogenesis - 1 Dec 1993
Attridge S R, Voss E, Manning P A
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Studies in the infant mouse cholera model have evaluated the significance of toxin-coregulated pili (TCP) in the pathogenesis of Vibrio cholerae strains of El Tor biotype. Four El Tor strains--two which produce TCP during in vitro growth and two which do not--were mutated by the insertion of an antibiotic-resistance cartridge into the tcpA gene (encoding the pilin monomer). The resulting mutants were otherwise...
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