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Diversity of <i>Vibrio cholerae</i> O1 through the human gastrointestinal tract during cholera
2024-02-08
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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> Vibrio cholerae O1 causes the diarrheal disease cholera, and the small intestine is the site of active infection. During cholera, cholera toxin is secreted from V. cholerae and induces a massive fluid influx into the small intestine, which causes vomiting and diarrhea. Typically, V. cholerae genomes are sequenced from bacteria passed in stool, but rarely from vomit, a fluid that may more close...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 468d1ed5-ab49-599a-b526-4c40b6c099d3
- DOI
- 10.1101/2024.02.08.579476
