Bordetella bronchiseptica exploits the complex life cycle of Dictyostelium discoideum as an amplifying transmission vector

• Main Authors: Taylor-Mulneix, Dawn L., Bendor, Liron, Linz, Bodo, Rivera, Israel, Ryman, Valerie E., Dewan, Kalyan K., Wagner, Shannon M., Wilson, Emily F., Hilburger, Lindsay J., Cuff, Laura E., West, Christopher M., Harvill, Eric T.
• Other Authors: Waldor, Matthew
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Bordetella Bronchiseptica; Disease Carrier
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/82727; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/45029
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Multiple lines of evidence suggest that Bordetella species have a significant life stage outside of the mammalian respiratory tract that has yet to be defined. The Bordetella virulence gene (BvgAS) two-component system, a paradigm for a global virulence regulon, controls the expression of many “viru...