Glucose- but not rice-based oral rehydration therapy enhances the production of virulence determinants in the human pathogen Vibrio cholerae.

• Main Authors: Juliane Kühn (Author), Flavio Finger (Author), Enrico Bertuzzo (Author), Sandrine Borgeaud (Author), Marino Gatto (Author), Andrea Rinaldo (Author), Melanie Blokesch (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Despite major attempts to prevent cholera transmission, millions of people worldwide still must address this devastating disease. Cholera research has so far mainly focused on the causative agent, the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, or on disease treatment, but rarely were results from both fields interc...