Pulmonary dehydration and infection in cystic fibrosis: evidence that ethanol activates alginate gene expression and induction of mucoidy in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

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Published in Mol Microbiol on May 01, 1990

Authors

J D DeVault1, K Kimbara, A M Chakrabarty

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1: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago 60612.

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