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Exciting news!! Our latest paper is out in Nat. Microbiol. @natmicrobiol.nature.com We show that a sub-lineage of 7th pandemic V. cholerae has acquired mobile genetic elements packed with phage defense systems—rendering it multi-phage resistant 😳 ..... 1/3 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

West African–South American pandemic Vibrio cholerae encodes multiple distinct phage defence systems - Nature MicrobiologyThe West African–South American lineage of Vibrio cholerae contains multiple distinct anti-phage defence systems that provide resistance to various phage families, including vibriophage ICP1, a key pr...www.nature.com