Type VI secretion system mutations reduced competitive fitness of classical Vibrio cholerae biotype

The bacterium Vibrio cholerae has caused seven recorded cholera pandemics. The factors responsible for the decline of 6th pandemic classical biotype strains are not well understood. Here, Kostiuk et al. propose that classical strains underwent sequential mutations in type-six secretion system genes...

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Main Authors: Benjamin Kostiuk, Francis J. Santoriello, Laura Diaz-Satizabal, Fabiana Bisaro, Kyung-Jo Lee, Anna N. Dhody, Daniele Provenzano, Daniel Unterweger, Stefan Pukatzki
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/3d629ab816704df4bbda22e3c61d8c4a
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