Molecular analysis of the rstR and orfU genes of the CTX prophages integrated in the small chromosomes of environmental Vibrio cholerae non-O1, non-O139 strains

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 526-634

  Bhattacharya, Tanuja ^a   Chatterjee, Souvik ^a   Maiti, Diganta ^b   Bhadra, Rupak K ^b   Takeda, Yoshifumi ^c   Nair, G Balakrish ^d   Nandy, Ranjan K ^a  

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

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY   (India)

^c JISSEN WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILAMENTOUS BACTERIOPHAGE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 33644940372     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2005.00932.x     Document Type: Article

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