Comparative analysis of cytotoxin, hemolysin, hemagglutinin and exocellular enzymes among clinical and environmental isolates of Vibrio cholerae O139 and non-O1, non-O139

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 179, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 401-407

  Guhathakurta, B ^a   Sasmal, D ^a   Pal, S ^a   Chakraborty, S ^a   Nair, G B ^a   Datta, A ^a  

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

Author keywords

Multiplex polymerase chain reaction; Phospholipase C; Vibrio cholerae O139

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN; CYTOTOXIN; ELASTASE; HEMAGGLUTININ; HEMOLYSIN; PHOSPHOLIPASE A; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; PROTEINASE; SIALIDASE; VASCULOTROPIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GUINEA PIG; HEMOLYSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHOLERA TOXIN; CYTOTOXINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; GUINEA PIGS; HEMAGGLUTININS; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; RABBITS; SHEEP; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 0032880727     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00441-3     Document Type: Article

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