Molecular characterisation of rough strains of Vibrio cholerae isolated from diarrhoeal cases in India and their comparison to smooth strains

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 232, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 23-30

  De, Keya ^a   Ramamurthy, Thandavarayan ^a   Faruque, Shah M ^b   Yamasaki, Shinji ^c   Takeda, Yoshifumi ^d   Nair, G Balakrish ^b   Nandy, Ranjan K ^a  

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

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^c Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^d JISSEN WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cholera toxin; Rough strain; Vibrio cholerae

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; CHOLERA TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DIARRHEA; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INDIA; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TOXIN SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOPHAGES; CHOLERA; CHOLERA TOXIN; DIARRHEA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FECES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; HUMANS; INDIA; LYSOGENY; O ANTIGENS; RIBOTYPING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 1542381059     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(04)00013-8     Document Type: Article

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