Spread of cholera with newer clones of Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor, serotype Inaba, in India

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 3391-3393

  Dutta, B ^a   Ghosh, R ^a   Sharma, N C ^b   Pazhani, G P ^a   Taneja, N ^c   Raychowdhuri, A ^a   Sarkar, B L ^a   Mondal, S K ^a   Mukhopadhyay, A K ^a   Nandy, R K ^a   Bhattacharya, M K ^a   Bhattacharya, S K ^a   Ramamurthy, T ^a  

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

^b Maharishi Valmiki Infectious Diseases Hospital   (India)

^c POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHOLERA; CLONE; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INDIA; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PULSOTYPE; RIBOTYPING; SEROTYPE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE O1 INABA; WBET GENE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHOLERA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INDIA; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RIBOTYPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING; VIBRIO CHOLERAE O1;

VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 33748802557     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00632-06     Document Type: Article

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