Bacterial pathogenesis: Vibrio enters 'sleep mode' to survive

Nature Reviews Microbiology 15, 515 (2017). doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2017.102 Author: Irene Vacca Vibrio cholerae is a water-borne pathogen that can cause cholera, an acute and severe gastrointestinal infection. A recent study by Silva-Valenzuela et al. investigated how this bacterium adapts to, and survives in, fresh water, which is an environment that is crucial for human
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