Molecular analysis of non-O1, non-O139 Vibrio cholerae associated with an unusual upsurge in the incidence of cholera-like disease in Calcutta, India

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 756-763

  Sharma, Charu ^d   Thungapathra, M ^d   Ghosh, A ^d   Mukhopadhyay, Asish K ^a   Basu, Arnab ^a   Mitra, Rupak ^a   Basu, Indira ^a   Bhattacharya, S K ^a   Shimada, T ^b   Ramamurthy, T ^e   Takeda, T ^e   Yamasaki, S ^c   Takeda, Y ^c   Nair, G Balakrish ^a  

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

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

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

^d INSTITUTE OF MICROBIAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^e NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; VEROTOXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHO CELL; CHOLERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INDIA; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 0031938860     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.36.3.756-763.1998     Document Type: Article

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