The facultative human pathogen Vibrio cholerae can be isolated from estuarine and aquatic
environments. V. cholerae is well recognized and extensively studied as the causative agent …

Pathogenic bacteria produce an elaborate assortment of extracellular and cell-associated
bacterial products that enable colonization and establishment of infection within a host …

Stenotrophomonas maltophilia WR-C is capable of forming biofilm on polystyrene and glass.
The lipopolysaccharide/exopolysaccharide-coupled biosynthetic genes rmlA, rmlC, and …

The suckling mouse has been used as a model to identify Vibrio cholerae intestinal
colonization factors for over two decades, yet little is known about the location of recoverable …

The crystal structure of the murine Fab S-20-4 from a protective anti-cholera Ab specific for
the lipopolysaccharide Ag of the Ogawa serotype has been determined in its unliganded …

Abstract Background: Escherichia coli O157: H7, Vibrio cholerae O1, and Salmonella Typhi
are pathogenic bacteria that can be found in contaminated water supplies throughout the …

Vibrio cholerae O139, the new serogroup associated with epidemic cholera, came into
being in the second half of the year 1992 in an explosive fashion and was responsible for …

Vibrio cholerae is a curved Gram-negative rod that causes the diarrheal disease cholera.
One hundred and twenty five years of study of V. cholerae microbiology have made this …

Bacteriophage K139 was recently characterized as a temperate phage of O1 Vibrio
cholerae. In this study we have determined the phage adsorption site on the bacterial cell …

The main virulence factor of Vibrio cholerae, the cholera toxin, is encoded by the ctxAB
operon, which is contained in the genome of the lysogenic filamentous phage CTXφ. This …