Diversity in the arrangement of the CTX prophages in classical strains of Vibrio cholerae O1

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 182, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 35-40

  Basu, Arnab ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Asish K ^a,c   Garg, Pallavi ^a   Chakraborty, Soumen ^a   Ramamurthy, T ^a   Yamasaki, Shinji ^b   Takeda, Yoshifumi ^b   Nair, G Balakrish ^a  

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

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

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Classical biotype; CTX prophage; RFLP of ctxA gene; Vibrio cholerae

Indexed keywords

POLYMYXIN B;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOTYPOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHAGE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RIBOTYPING; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; BACTERIOPHAGES; CHOLERA; CHOLERA TOXIN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENES, RRNA; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POLYMYXIN B; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; VARIATION (GENETICS); VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 0033988701     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00562-5     Document Type: Article

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