MicroCommentary: Smarter than the average phage

• Published in: Molecular microbiology Vol. 54; no. 4; pp. 851 - 854
• Main Author: Blakely, Garry W.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Science Ltd 01.11.2004; Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Summary The seventh cholera pandemic emerged in the poorer nations of the world towards the end of the 20th century and continues to kill thousands of people per year. The causative agent of cholera, the Gram‐negative bacterium Vibrio cholera, is only pathogenic when it contains a lysogenic bacterio...