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SUBMITTER: Kostiuk B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8578542 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kostiuk Benjamin B Santoriello Francis J FJ Diaz-Satizabal Laura L Bisaro Fabiana F Lee Kyung-Jo KJ Dhody Anna N AN Provenzano Daniele D Unterweger Daniel D Pukatzki Stefan S
Nature communications 20211109 1
The gram-negative bacterium Vibrio cholerae is the causative agent of the diarrhoeal disease cholera and is responsible for seven recorded pandemics. Several factors are postulated to have led to the decline of 6th pandemic classical strains and the rise of El Tor biotype V. cholerae, establishing the current 7th pandemic. We investigated the ability of classical V. cholerae of the 2nd and 6th pandemics to engage their type six secretion system (T6SS) in microbial competition against non-pandemi ...[more]