Pathogenic potential of environmental Vibrio cholerae strains carrying genetic variants of the toxin-coregulated pilus pathogenicity island

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 1020-1025

  Faruque, Shah M ^a   Kamruzzaman, M ^a   Meraj, Ismail M ^a   Chowdhury, Nityananda ^a   Nair, G Balakrish ^a   Sack, R Bradley ^b   Colwell, Rita R ^c   Sack, David A ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN; GENE PRODUCT; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM PILUS; BIOTYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DNA PROBE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LYSOGENIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; TOXIN COREGULATED PILUS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOPHAGES; CHOLERA; CHOLERA TOXIN; DIARRHEA; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FRESH WATER; LYSOGENY; MICE; RABBITS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VARIATION (GENETICS); VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 0037306206     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.71.2.1020-1025.2003     Document Type: Article

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