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Excision dynamics of Vibrio pathogenicity island-2 from Vibrio cholerae: role of a recombination directionality factor VefA

BACKGROUND: Vibrio Pathogenicity Island-2 (VPI-2) is a 57 kb region present in choleragenic V. cholerae isolates that is required for growth on sialic acid as a sole carbon source. V. cholerae non-O1/O139 pathogenic strains also contain VPI-2, which in addition to sialic acid catabolism genes also e...

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Autores principales: Almagro-Moreno, Salvador, Napolitano, Michael G, Boyd, E Fidelma
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3014918/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21118541
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-10-306