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Science 1 September 2000:
Vol. 289. no. 5484, pp. 1488 - 1489
DOI: 10.1126/science.289.5484.1488
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Perspectives

GENOMICS:
Genomics Happens

Victor J. DiRita

Cholera has been the scourge of humankind for centuries. Although most of the time Vibrio cholerae, the microbe that causes this disease, is a free-living organism inhabiting aquatic environments, it can invade human hosts causing severe diarrhea and often death. As DiRita explains in his Perspective, sequencing of the entire V. cholerae genome is revealing new facets of the pathogenesis of this dangerous microbe.

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THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Genotypes Associated with Virulence in Environmental Isolates of Vibrio cholerae.
I. N. G. Rivera, J. Chun, A. Huq, R. B. Sack, and R. R. Colwell (2001)
Appl. Envir. Microbiol. 67, 2421-2429
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