Science 28 June 1996: Vol. 272. no. 5270, pp. 1910 - 1914 DOI: 10.1126/science.272.5270.1910

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Vibrio cholerae LexA Coordinates CTX Prophage Gene Expression.

H. H. Kimsey and M. K. Waldor (2009)
J. Bacteriol. 191, 6788-6795
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A New Twist on a Classic Paradigm: Illumination of a Genetic Switch in Vibrio cholerae Phage CTX{Phi}.

B. E. Nickels (2009)
J. Bacteriol. 191, 6779-6781
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Comparative Evolutionary Analysis of the Major Structural Subunit of Vibrio vulnificus Type IV Pili.

S. Chattopadhyay, R. N. Paranjpye, D. E. Dykhuizen, E. V. Sokurenko, and M. S. Strom (2009)
Mol. Biol. Evol. 26, 2185-2196
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DNA Binding Proteins of the Filamentous Phages CTX{phi} and VGJ{phi} of Vibrio cholerae.

A. Falero, A. Caballero, B. Ferran, Y. Izquierdo, R. Fando, and J. Campos (2009)
J. Bacteriol. 191, 5873-5876
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Comparative genomics reveals mechanism for short-term and long-term clonal transitions in pandemic Vibrio cholerae.

J. Chun, C. J. Grim, N. A. Hasan, J. H. Lee, S. Y. Choi, B. J. Haley, E. Taviani, Y.-S. Jeon, D. W. Kim, J.-H. Lee, et al. (2009)
PNAS 106, 15442-15447
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Sialic Acid Catabolism Confers a Competitive Advantage to Pathogenic Vibrio cholerae in the Mouse Intestine.

S. Almagro-Moreno and E. F. Boyd (2009)
Infect. Immun. 77, 3807-3816
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Bicarbonate Induces Vibrio cholerae Virulence Gene Expression by Enhancing ToxT Activity.

B. H. Abuaita and J. H. Withey (2009)
Infect. Immun. 77, 4111-4120
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RNA Colony Blot Hybridization Method for Enumeration of Culturable Vibrio cholerae and Vibrio mimicus Bacteria.

C. J. Grim, Y.-G. Zo, N. A. Hasan, A. Ali, W. B. Chowdhury, A. Islam, M. H. Rashid, M. Alam, J. G. Morris Jr., A. Huq, et al. (2009)
Appl. Envir. Microbiol. 75, 5439-5444
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Bacteriophages Encode Factors Required for Protection in a Symbiotic Mutualism.

K. M. Oliver, P. H. Degnan, M. S. Hunter, and N. A. Moran (2009)
Science 325, 992-994
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Functional analyses of pilin-like proteins from Francisella tularensis: complementation of type IV pilus phenotypes in Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

E. Salomonsson, A. Forsberg, N. Roos, C. Holz, B. Maier, M. Koomey, and H. C. Winther-Larsen (2009)
Microbiology 155, 2546-2559
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Molecular Characterization and Lytic Activities of Streptococcus agalactiae Bacteriophages and Determination of Lysogenic-Strain Features.

A.-S. Domelier, N. van der Mee-Marquet, P.-Y. Sizaret, G. Hery-Arnaud, M.-F. Lartigue, L. Mereghetti, and R. Quentin (2009)
J. Bacteriol. 191, 4776-4785
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Shiga Toxin 2 Is Specifically Released from Bacterial Cells by Two Different Mechanisms.

T. Shimizu, Y. Ohta, and M. Noda (2009)
Infect. Immun. 77, 2813-2823
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Characterization of a New Plasmid-Like Prophage in a Pandemic Vibrio parahaemolyticus O3:K6 Strain.

S.-F. Lan, C.-H. Huang, C.-H. Chang, W.-C. Liao, I-H. Lin, W.-N. Jian, Y.-G. Wu, S.-Y. Chen, and H.-c. Wong (2009)
Appl. Envir. Microbiol. 75, 2659-2667
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The Core Oligosaccharide and Thioredoxin of Vibrio cholerae Are Necessary for Binding and Propagation of Its Typing Phage VP3.

J. Zhang, W. Li, Q. Zhang, H. Wang, X. Xu, B. Diao, L. Zhang, and B. Kan (2009)
J. Bacteriol. 191, 2622-2629
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Incidence, Virulence Factors, and Clonality among Clinical Strains of Non-O1, Non-O139 Vibrio cholerae Isolates from Hospitalized Diarrheal Patients in Kolkata, India.

S. Chatterjee, K. Ghosh, A. Raychoudhuri, G. Chowdhury, M. K. Bhattacharya, A. K. Mukhopadhyay, T. Ramamurthy, S. K. Bhattacharya, K. E. Klose, and R. K. Nandy (2009)
J. Clin. Microbiol. 47, 1087-1095
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Peruvian Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor strains possess a distinct region in the Vibrio seventh pandemic island-II that differentiates them from the prototype seventh pandemic El Tor strains.

S. Nusrin, A. I. Gil, N. A. Bhuiyan, A. Safa, M. Asakura, C. F. Lanata, E. Hall, H. Miranda, B. Huapaya, C. Vargas G., et al. (2009)
J. Med. Microbiol. 58, 342-354
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A large cholera outbreak due to a new cholera toxin variant of the Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor biotype in Orissa, Eastern India.

P. Kumar, M. Jain, A. K. Goel, S. Bhadauria, S. K. Sharma, D. V. Kamboj, L. Singh, T. Ramamurthy, and G. B. Nair (2009)
J. Med. Microbiol. 58, 234-238
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Genotypic and Phenotypic Diversity among Induced, stx2-Carrying Bacteriophages from Environmental Escherichia coli Strains.

C. Garcia-Aljaro, M. Muniesa, J. Jofre, and A. R. Blanch (2009)
Appl. Envir. Microbiol. 75, 329-336
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Multilocus genetic analysis reveals that the Australian strains of Vibrio cholerae O1 are similar to the pre-seventh pandemic strains of the El Tor biotype.

A. Safa, N. A. Bhuiyan, D. Murphy, J. Bates, S. Nusrin, R. Y. C. Kong, M. Chongsanguan, W. Chaicumpa, and G. B. Nair (2009)
J. Med. Microbiol. 58, 105-111
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Flexibility of Vibrio cholerae ToxT in Transcription Activation of Genes Having Altered Promoter Spacing.

M. Bellair and J. H. Withey (2008)
J. Bacteriol. 190, 7925-7931
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Acquisition of classical CTX prophage from Vibrio cholerae O141 by El Tor strains aided by lytic phages and chitin-induced competence.

S. M. N. Udden, M. S. H. Zahid, K. Biswas, Q. S. Ahmad, A. Cravioto, G. B. Nair, J. J. Mekalanos, and S. M. Faruque (2008)
PNAS 105, 11951-11956
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Decreased Potency of the Vibrio cholerae Sheathed Flagellum To Trigger Host Innate Immunity.

S. S. Yoon and J. J. Mekalanos (2008)
Infect. Immun. 76, 1282-1288
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Three Pathogenicity Islands of Vibrio cholerae Can Excise from the Chromosome and Form Circular Intermediates.

R. A. Murphy and E. F. Boyd (2008)
J. Bacteriol. 190, 636-647
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Lipidation of an FlrC-Dependent Protein Is Required for Enhanced Intestinal Colonization by Vibrio cholerae.

D. C. Morris, F. Peng, J. R. Barker, and K. E. Klose (2008)
J. Bacteriol. 190, 231-239
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Sequence Characterization and Comparative Analysis of Three Plasmids Isolated from Environmental Vibrio spp..

T. H. Hazen, D. Wu, J. A. Eisen, and P. A. Sobecky (2007)
Appl. Envir. Microbiol. 73, 7703-7710
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Viable but nonculturable Vibrio cholerae O1 in biofilms in the aquatic environment and their role in cholera transmission.

M. Alam, M. Sultana, G. B. Nair, A. K. Siddique, N. A. Hasan, R. B. Sack, D. A. Sack, K. U. Ahmed, A. Sadique, H. Watanabe, et al. (2007)
PNAS 104, 17801-17806
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Causes for the intriguing presence of tRNAs in phages.

M. Bailly-Bechet, M. Vergassola, and E. Rocha (2007)
Genome Res. 17, 1486-1495
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Genetic Diversity of Toxigenic and Nontoxigenic Vibrio cholerae Serogroups O1 and O139 Revealed by Array-Based Comparative Genomic Hybridization.

B. Pang, M. Yan, Z. Cui, X. Ye, B. Diao, Y. Ren, S. Gao, L. Zhang, and B. Kan (2007)
J. Bacteriol. 189, 4837-4849
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Membrane Association and Multimerization of TcpT, the Cognate ATPase Ortholog of the Vibrio cholerae Toxin-Coregulated-Pilus Biogenesis Apparatus.

S. A. Tripathi and R. K. Taylor (2007)
J. Bacteriol. 189, 4401-4409
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Phenotypic and genotypic traits and epidemiological implication of Vibrio cholerae O1 and O139 strains in India during 2003.

S. Chatterjee, K. Ghosh, A. Raychoudhuri, A. Pan, M. K. Bhattacharya, A. K. Mukhopadhyay, T. Ramamurthy, S. K. Bhattacharya, and R. K. Nandy (2007)
J. Med. Microbiol. 56, 824-832
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Detection and Transformation of Genome Segments That Differ within a Coastal Population of Vibrio cholerae Strains.

M. C. Miller, D. P. Keymer, A. Avelar, A. B. Boehm, and G. K. Schoolnik (2007)
Appl. Envir. Microbiol. 73, 3695-3704
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The Genome of Non-O1 Vibrio cholerae NRT36S Demonstrates the Presence of Pathogenic Mechanisms That Are Distinct from Those of O1 Vibrio cholerae.

Y. Chen, J. A. Johnson, G. D. Pusch, J. G. Morris Jr., and O. C. Stine (2007)
Infect. Immun. 75, 2645-2647
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Broad Up-Regulation of Innate Defense Factors during Acute Cholera.

C.-F. Flach, F. Qadri, T. R. Bhuiyan, N. H. Alam, E. Jennische, I. Lonnroth, and J. Holmgren (2007)
Infect. Immun. 75, 2343-2350
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Colicin Biology.

E. Cascales, S. K. Buchanan, D. Duche, C. Kleanthous, R. Lloubes, K. Postle, M. Riley, S. Slatin, and D. Cavard (2007)
Microbiol. Mol. Biol. Rev. 71, 158-229
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Detection of Vibrio cholerae by Real-Time Nucleic Acid Sequence-Based Amplification.

E. M. Fykse, G. Skogan, W. Davies, J. S. Olsen, and J. M. Blatny (2007)
Appl. Envir. Microbiol. 73, 1457-1466
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Role of Streptococcal T Antigens in Superficial Skin Infection.

S. Lizano, F. Luo, and D. E. Bessen (2007)
J. Bacteriol. 189, 1426-1434
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Global Dissemination of Vibrio parahaemolyticus Serotype O3:K6 and Its Serovariants.

G. B. Nair, T. Ramamurthy, S. K. Bhattacharya, B. Dutta, Y. Takeda, and D. A. Sack (2007)
Clin. Microbiol. Rev. 20, 39-48
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Genetic organization of pre-CTX and CTX prophages in the genome of an environmental Vibrio cholerae non-O1, non-O139 strain.

D. Maiti, B. Das, A. Saha, R. K. Nandy, G. B. Nair, and R. K. Bhadra (2006)
Microbiology 152, 3633-3641
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Identification of Proinflammatory Flagellin Proteins in Supernatants of Vibrio cholerae O1 by Proteomics Analysis.

J. Xicohtencatl-Cortes, S. Lyons, A. P. Chaparro, D. R. Hernandez, Z. Saldana, M. A. Ledesma, M. A. Rendon, A. T. Gewirtz, K. E. Klose, and J. A. Giron (2006)
Mol. Cell. Proteomics 5, 2374-2383
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Transcutaneous Immunization with Toxin-Coregulated Pilin A Induces Protective Immunity against Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor Challenge in Mice..

J. E. Rollenhagen, A. Kalsy, F. Cerda, M. John, J. B. Harris, R. C. LaRocque, F. Qadri, S. B. Calderwood, R. K. Taylor, and E. T. Ryan (2006)
Infect. Immun. 74, 5834-5839
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A Selective Barrier to Horizontal Gene Transfer in the T4-Type Bacteriophages That Has Preserved a Core Genome with the Viral Replication and Structural Genes.

J. Filee, E. Bapteste, E. Susko, and H. M. Krisch (2006)
Mol. Biol. Evol. 23, 1688-1696
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Bacteriophage-mediated competition in Bordetella bacteria.

J. Joo, M. Gunny, M. Cases, P. Hudson, R. Albert, and E. Harvill (2006)
Proc R Soc B 273, 1843-1848
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Vibrio2005: the First International Conference on the Biology of Vibrios.

F. L. Thompson, K. E. Klose, and the AVIB Group (2006)
J. Bacteriol. 188, 4592-4596
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Borrelia burgdorferi EbfC, a Novel, Chromosomally Encoded Protein, Binds Specific DNA Sequences Adjacent to erp Loci on the Spirochete's Resident cp32 Prophages..

K. Babb, T. Bykowski, S. P. Riley, M. C. Miller, E. DeMoll, and B. Stevenson (2006)
J. Bacteriol. 188, 4331-4339
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Modeling the role of bacteriophage in the control of cholera outbreaks.

M. A. Jensen, S. M. Faruque, J. J. Mekalanos, and B. R. Levin (2006)
PNAS 103, 4652-4657
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Importance of Heat-Labile Enterotoxin in Colonization of the Adult Mouse Small Intestine by Human Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli Strains.

K. P. Allen, M. M. Randolph, and J. M. Fleckenstein (2006)
Infect. Immun. 74, 869-875
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Activation of the Vibrio cholerae SOS Response Is Not Required for Intestinal Cholera Toxin Production or Colonization.

M. Quinones, B. M. Davis, and M. K. Waldor (2006)
Infect. Immun. 74, 927-930
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Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) analysis of Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor isolates from Mozambique that harbour the classical CTX prophage.

J. H. Lee, K. H. Han, S. Y. Choi, M. E. S. Lucas, C. Mondlane, M. Ansaruzzaman, G. B. Nair, D. A. Sack, L. von Seidlein, J. D. Clemens, et al. (2006)
J. Med. Microbiol. 55, 165-170
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Microarray-based detection of genetic heterogeneity, antimicrobial resistance, and the viable but nonculturable state in human pathogenic Vibrio spp..

G. J. Vora, C. E. Meador, M. M. Bird, C. A. Bopp, J. D. Andreadis, and D. A. Stenger (2005)
PNAS 102, 19109-19114
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Chitin Induces Natural Competence in Vibrio cholerae.

K. L. Meibom, M. Blokesch, N. A. Dolganov, C.-Y. Wu, and G. K. Schoolnik (2005)
Science 310, 1824-1827
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Vibrio cholerae ToxT Independently Activates the Divergently Transcribed aldA and tagA Genes.

J. H. Withey and V. J. DiRita (2005)
J. Bacteriol. 187, 7890-7900
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Small-Molecule Inhibitor of Vibrio cholerae Virulence and Intestinal Colonization.

D. T. Hung, E. A. Shakhnovich, E. Pierson, and J. J. Mekalanos (2005)
Science 310, 670-674
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Hyperinfectivity of Human-Passaged Vibrio cholerae Can Be Modeled by Growth in the Infant Mouse.

A. Alam, R. C. LaRocque, J. B. Harris, C. Vanderspurt, E. T. Ryan, F. Qadri, and S. B. Calderwood (2005)
Infect. Immun. 73, 6674-6679
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Roles of the Regulatory Proteins FlhF and FlhG in the Vibrio cholerae Flagellar Transcription Hierarchy.

N. E. Correa, F. Peng, and K. E. Klose (2005)
J. Bacteriol. 187, 6324-6332
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Structural features, properties and regulation of the outer-membrane protein W (OmpW) of Vibrio cholerae.

B. Nandi, R. K. Nandy, A. Sarkar, and A. C. Ghose (2005)
Microbiology 151, 2975-2986
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Marine T4-type bacteriophages, a ubiquitous component of the dark matter of the biosphere.

J. Filee, F. Tetart, C. A. Suttle, and H. M. Krisch (2005)
PNAS 102, 12471-12476
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TcpF Is a Soluble Colonization Factor and Protective Antigen Secreted by El Tor and Classical O1 and O139 Vibrio cholerae Serogroups.

T. J. Kirn and R. K. Taylor (2005)
Infect. Immun. 73, 4461-4470
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Transcriptional Profiling of Vibrio cholerae Recovered Directly from Patient Specimens during Early and Late Stages of Human Infection.

R. C. LaRocque, J. B. Harris, M. Dziejman, X. Li, A. I. Khan, A. S. G. Faruque, S. M. Faruque, G. B. Nair, E. T. Ryan, F. Qadri, et al. (2005)
Infect. Immun. 73, 4488-4493
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Use of Suppression-Subtractive Hybridization To Identify Genes in the Burkholderia cepacia Complex That Are Unique to Burkholderia cenocepacia.

S. P. Bernier and P. A. Sokol (2005)
J. Bacteriol. 187, 5278-5291
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A sensitive, support-vector-machine method for the detection of horizontal gene transfers in viral, archaeal and bacterial genomes.

A. Tsirigos and I. Rigoutsos (2005)
Nucleic Acids Res. 33, 3699-3707
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A chromosomally integrated bacteriophage in invasive meningococci.

E. Bille, J.-R. Zahar, A. Perrin, S. Morelle, P. Kriz, K. A. Jolley, M. C.J. Maiden, C. Dervin, X. Nassif, and C. R. Tinsley (2005)
J. Exp. Med. 201, 1905-1913
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Genomic Sequence and Receptor for the Vibrio cholerae Phage KSF-1{Phi}: Evolutionary Divergence among Filamentous Vibriophages Mediating Lateral Gene Transfer.

S. M. Faruque, I. Bin Naser, K. Fujihara, P. Diraphat, N. Chowdhury, M. Kamruzzaman, F. Qadri, S. Yamasaki, A. N. Ghosh, and J. J. Mekalanos (2005)
J. Bacteriol. 187, 4095-4103
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Virulence and the Environment: a Novel Role for Vibrio cholerae Toxin-Coregulated Pili in Biofilm Formation on Chitin.

G. Reguera and R. Kolter (2005)
J. Bacteriol. 187, 3551-3555
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A Glimpse into the Expanded Genome Content of Vibrio cholerae through Identification of Genes Present in Environmental Strains.

A. Purdy, F. Rohwer, R. Edwards, F. Azam, and D. H. Bartlett (2005)
J. Bacteriol. 187, 2992-3001
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Requirements for Vibrio cholerae HapR Binding and Transcriptional Repression at the hapR Promoter Are Distinct from Those at the aphA Promoter.

W. Lin, G. Kovacikova, and K. Skorupski (2005)
J. Bacteriol. 187, 3013-3019
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Self-limiting nature of seasonal cholera epidemics: Role of host-mediated amplification of phage.

S. M. Faruque, M. J. Islam, Q. S. Ahmad, A. S. G. Faruque, D. A. Sack, G. B. Nair, and J. J. Mekalanos (2005)
PNAS 102, 6119-6124
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Crystal Structure of the Virulence Gene Activator AphA from Vibrio cholerae Reveals It Is a Novel Member of the Winged Helix Transcription Factor Superfamily.

R. S. De Silva, G. Kovacikova, W. Lin, R. K. Taylor, K. Skorupski, and F. J. Kull (2005)
J. Biol. Chem. 280, 13779-13783
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Linkage of the Horizontally Acquired ypm and pil Genes in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis.

F. Collyn, H. Fukushima, C. Carnoy, M. Simonet, and P. Vincent (2005)
Infect. Immun. 73, 2556-2558
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Identification of a TcpC-TcpQ Outer Membrane Complex Involved in the Biogenesis of the Toxin-Coregulated Pilus of Vibrio cholerae.

N. Bose and R. K. Taylor (2005)
J. Bacteriol. 187, 2225-2232
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Genomic characterization of non-O1, non-O139 Vibrio cholerae reveals genes for a type III secretion system.

M. Dziejman, D. Serruto, V. C. Tam, D. Sturtevant, P. Diraphat, S. M. Faruque, M. H. Rahman, J. F. Heidelberg, J. Decker, L. Li, et al. (2005)
PNAS 102, 3465-3470
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Complete genome sequence of Vibrio fischeri: A symbiotic bacterium with pathogenic congeners.

E. G. Ruby, M. Urbanowski, J. Campbell, A. Dunn, M. Faini, R. Gunsalus, P. Lostroh, C. Lupp, J. McCann, D. Millikan, et al. (2005)
PNAS 102, 3004-3009
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Analysis of the Piv Recombinase-Related Gene Family of Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

E. P. Skaar, B. LeCuyer, A. G. Lenich, M. P. Lazio, D. Perkins-Balding, H. S. Seifert, and A. C. Karls (2005)
J. Bacteriol. 187, 1276-1286
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Seasonal epidemics of cholera inversely correlate with the prevalence of environmental cholera phages.

S. M. Faruque, I. B. Naser, M. J. Islam, A. S. G. Faruque, A. N. Ghosh, G. B. Nair, D. A. Sack, and J. J. Mekalanos (2005)
PNAS 102, 1702-1707
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Molecular evolution of Vibrio pathogenicity island-2 (VPI-2): mosaic structure among Vibrio cholerae and Vibrio mimicus natural isolates.

W. S. Jermyn and E. F. Boyd (2005)
Microbiology 151, 311-322
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Genome Comparison In Silico in Neisseria Suggests Integration of Filamentous Bacteriophages by their Own Transposase.

M. Kawai, I. Uchiyama, and I. Kobayashi (2005)
DNA Res 12, 389-401
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Diverse CTX Phages among Toxigenic Vibrio cholerae O1 and O139 Strains Isolated between 1994 and 2002 in an Area Where Cholera is Endemic in Bangladesh.

S. Nusrin, G. Y. Khan, N. A. Bhuiyan, M. Ansaruzzaman, M. A. Hossain, A. Safa, R. Khan, S. M. Faruque, D. A. Sack, T. Hamabata, et al. (2004)
J. Clin. Microbiol. 42, 5854-5856
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The Vibrio seventh pandemic island-II is a 26{middle dot}9 kb genomic island present in Vibrio cholerae El Tor and O139 serogroup isolates that shows homology to a 43{middle dot}4 kb genomic island in V. vulnificus.

Y. A. O'Shea, S. Finnan, F. J. Reen, J. P. Morrissey, F. O'Gara, and E. F. Boyd (2004)
Microbiology 150, 4053-4063
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ModA and ModB, Two ADP-Ribosyltransferases Encoded by Bacteriophage T4: Catalytic Properties and Mutation Analysis.

B. Tiemann, R. Depping, E. Gineikiene, L. Kaliniene, R. Nivinskas, and W. Ruger (2004)
J. Bacteriol. 186, 7262-7272
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Therapy of Experimental Pseudomonas Infections with a Nonreplicating Genetically Modified Phage.

S. Hagens, A. Habel, U. von Ahsen, A. von Gabain, and U. Blasi (2004)
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 48, 3817-3822
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Evolutionary Genetic Analysis of the Emergence of Epidemic Vibrio cholerae Isolates on the Basis of Comparative Nucleotide Sequence Analysis and Multilocus Virulence Gene Profiles.

Y. A. O'Shea, F. J. Reen, A. M. Quirke, and E. F. Boyd (2004)
J. Clin. Microbiol. 42, 4657-4671
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Biodiversity of Vibrios.

F. L. Thompson, T. Iida, and J. Swings (2004)
Microbiol. Mol. Biol. Rev. 68, 403-431
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Phages and the Evolution of Bacterial Pathogens: from Genomic Rearrangements to Lysogenic Conversion.

H. Brussow, C. Canchaya, and W.-D. Hardt (2004)
Microbiol. Mol. Biol. Rev. 68, 560-602
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Complete Genomic Nucleotide Sequence of the Temperate Bacteriophage Aa{Phi}23 of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans.

G. Resch, E. M. Kulik, F. S. Dietrich, and J. Meyer (2004)
J. Bacteriol. 186, 5523-5528
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Both chemotaxis and net motility greatly influence the infectivity of Vibrio cholerae.

S. M. Butler and A. Camilli (2004)
PNAS 101, 5018-5023
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Phenotypic and Genotypic Characteristics and Epidemiological Significance of ctx+ Strains of Vibrio cholerae Isolated from Seafood in Malaysia.

C.-H. Chen, T. Shimada, N. Elhadi, S. Radu, and M. Nishibuchi (2004)
Appl. Envir. Microbiol. 70, 1964-1972
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Spatiotemporal Analysis of Acid Adaptation-Mediated Vibrio cholerae Hyperinfectivity.

M. J. Angelichio, D. S. Merrell, and A. Camilli (2004)
Infect. Immun. 72, 2405-2407
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Phage Community Dynamics in Hot Springs.

M. Breitbart, L. Wegley, S. Leeds, T. Schoenfeld, and F. Rohwer (2004)
Appl. Envir. Microbiol. 70, 1633-1640
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Genomic and Genetic Analysis of Bordetella Bacteriophages Encoding Reverse Transcriptase-Mediated Tropism-Switching Cassettes.

M. Liu, M. Gingery, S. R. Doulatov, Y. Liu, A. Hodes, S. Baker, P. Davis, M. Simmonds, C. Churcher, K. Mungall, et al. (2004)
J. Bacteriol. 186, 1503-1517
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The CTX{phi} Repressor RstR Binds DNA Cooperatively to Form Tetrameric Repressor-Operator Complexes.

H. H. Kimsey and M. K. Waldor (2004)
J. Biol. Chem. 279, 2640-2647
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Making sense of an alphabet soup: the use of a new bioinformatics tool for identification of novel gene islands. Focus on "Identification of genomic islands in the genome of Bacillus cereus by comparative analysis with Bacillus anthracis".

A. O. Charkowski (2004)
Physiol Genomics 16, 180-181
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Pathogenicity Islands in Bacterial Pathogenesis.

H. Schmidt and M. Hensel (2004)
Clin. Microbiol. Rev. 17, 14-56
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Novel Type of Specialized Transduction for CTX{phi} or Its Satellite Phage RS1 Mediated by Filamentous Phage VGJ{phi} in Vibrio cholerae.

J. Campos, E. Martinez, K. Marrero, Y. Silva, B. L. Rodriguez, E. Suzarte, T. Ledon, and R. Fando (2003)
J. Bacteriol. 185, 7231-7240
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Prevalence of Cholera Toxin Genes (ctxA and zot) among Non-O1/O139 Vibrio cholerae Strains from Newport Bay, California.

S. Jiang, W. Chu, and W. Fu (2003)
Appl. Envir. Microbiol. 69, 7541-7544
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Transcription of the Toxin Genes Present within the Staphylococcal Phage {phi}Sa3ms Is Intimately Linked with the Phage's Life Cycle.

P. Sumby and M. K. Waldor (2003)
J. Bacteriol. 185, 6841-6851
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The Vibrio Pathogenicity Island of Epidemic Vibrio cholerae Forms Precise Extrachromosomal Circular Excision Products.

C. Rajanna, J. Wang, D. Zhang, Z. Xu, A. Ali, Y.-M. Hou, and D. K. R. Karaolis (2003)
J. Bacteriol. 185, 6893-6901
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Sampling Natural Viral Communities from Soil for Culture-Independent Analyses.

K. E. Williamson, K. E. Wommack, and M. Radosevich (2003)
Appl. Envir. Microbiol. 69, 6628-6633
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Genome Sequences of Two Closely Related Vibrio parahaemolyticus Phages, VP16T and VP16C.

V. Seguritan, I-W. Feng, F. Rohwer, M. Swift, and A. M. Segall (2003)
J. Bacteriol. 185, 6434-6447
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Construction and Evaluation of a Safe, Live, Oral Vibrio cholerae Vaccine Candidate, IEM108.

W. Liang, S. Wang, F. Yu, L. Zhang, G. Qi, Y. Liu, S. Gao, and B. Kan (2003)
Infect. Immun. 71, 5498-5504
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The Global Regulator ArcA Modulates Expression of Virulence Factors in Vibrio cholerae.

N. Sengupta, K. Paul, and R. Chowdhury (2003)
Infect. Immun. 71, 5583-5589
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VGJ{phi}, a Novel Filamentous Phage of Vibrio cholerae, Integrates into the Same Chromosomal Site as CTX{phi}.

J. Campos, E. Martinez, E. Suzarte, B. L. Rodriguez, K. Marrero, Y. Silva, T. Ledon, R. del Sol, and R. Fando (2003)
J. Bacteriol. 185, 5685-5696
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