Preferential association of the heat-stable enterotoxin gene (stn) with environmental strains of Vibrio cholerae belonging to the O14 serogroup

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 245-251

  Sarkar, B ^a   Bhattacharya, T ^a   Ramamurthy, T ^a   Shimada, T ^b   Takeda, Y ^c   Balakrish Nair, G ^d  

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

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^c JISSEN WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CHOLERA TOXIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FURAZOLIDONE; GENTAMICIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NEOMYCIN; NORFLOXACIN; PROTEIN STN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BLOOD GROUP TYPING; CHOLERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; INDIA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PROPHAGE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; THERMOSTABILITY; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHOLERA; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROTOXINS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INDIA; MICE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTYPING; SOIL; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 0036773426     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268802007392     Document Type: Article

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