Vibrio cholerae O1 strains are facultative intracellular bacteria, able to survive and multiply symbiotically inside the aquatic free-living amoeba Acanthamoeba castellanii
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- 1 April 2007
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in FEMS Microbiology Ecology
- Vol. 60 (1) , 33-39
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6941.2006.00254.x
Abstract
Vibrio cholerae species are extracellular, waterborne, gram-negative bacteria that are overwhelmed by predators in aquatic environments. The unencapsKeywords
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