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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2010
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-05-746 |