Heterogeneity in the organization of the CTX genetic element in strains of Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal isolated from Calcutta, India and Dhaka, Bangladesh and its possible link to the dissimilar incidence of O139 cholera in the two locales

Microbial Pathogenesis

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 175-183

  Basu, Arnab ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Asish K ^a   Sharma, Charu ^b   Jyot, Jeevan ^b   Gupta, Naveen ^b   Ghosh, Amit ^b   Bhattacharya, S K ^a   Takeda, Yoshifumi ^c   Faruque, A S G ^d   Albert, M John ^d   Nair, G Balakrish ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHOLERA AND ENTERIC DISEASES   (India)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROBIAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

CTX genetic element; PCR assay; Southern blot; V. cholerae O139

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FURAZOLIDONE; GENTAMICIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NORFLOXACIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BANGLADESH; BIOTYPOLOGY; CHOLERA; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; INDIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOTYPING; SEROTYPE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 0031909025     PISSN: 08824010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpat.1997.0186     Document Type: Article

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