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SUBMITTER: Petersen LM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3502906 | biostudies-other | 2012 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Petersen Lauren M LM Tisa Louis S LS
Applied and environmental microbiology 20121005 24
The physiology of a newly recognized Serratia species, termed South African Caenorhabditis briggsae Isolate (SCBI), which is both a nematode mutualist and an insect pathogen, was investigated and compared to that of Serratia marcescens Db11, a broad-host-range pathogen. The two Serratia strains had comparable levels of virulence for Manduca sexta and similar cytotoxic activity patterns, but motility and lipase and hemolytic activities differed significantly between them. ...[more]