Carbon metabolism influences Shigella flexneri pathogenesis

The gram negative bacterium Shigella flexneri is an etiological agent of bacillary dysentery, and causes destruction of the human intestinal epithelium. S. flexneri is primarily transmitted via the fecal-oral route to its primary infective site in the colon. The bacterium invades and replicates with...

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Main Author: Gore, Aja Lynne
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-05-746