Contribution of amino acid catabolism to the tissue specific persistence of Campylobacter jejuni in a murine colonization model.

Campylobacter jejuni is a major cause of food-borne disease in industrialized countries. Carbohydrate utilization by C. jejuni is severely restricted, and knowledge about which substrates fuel C. jejuni infection and growth is limited. Some amino acids have been shown to serve as carbon sources both...

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Main Authors: Dirk Hofreuter, Juliane Mohr, Olga Wensel, Sebastian Rademacher, Kerstin Schreiber, Dietmar Schomburg, Beile Gao, Jorge E Galán
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3511319?pdf=render