Vibrio pathogenicity island and cholera toxin genetic element-associated virulence genes and their expression in non-O1 non-O139 strains of Vibrio cholerae

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 70, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 4735-4742

  Sarkar, Amit ^a   Nandy, Ranjan K ^a   Nair, G Balakrish ^a   Ghose, Asoke C ^a  

^a BOSE INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN; GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN CTX; PROTEIN TCPA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FOLDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHOLERA TOXIN; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0036077365     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.70.8.4735-4742.2002     Document Type: Article

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