Article
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
Abstract excerpt
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 a...
Topics
- Animals
- Bacterial Proteins
- Bacterial Toxins
- Base Sequence
- Blotting, Southern
- Cholera
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA, Bacterial
- Fimbriae Proteins
- Fimbriae, Bacterial
- Immunoblotting
- Mice
- Molecular Sequence Data
