Genetic characteristics of Matlab variants of Vibrio cholerae O1 that are hybrids between classical and El Tor biotypes

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1563-1569

  Safa, Ashrafus ^a   Bhuyian, N A ^a   Nusrin, Suraia ^a   Ansaruzzaman, M ^a   Alam, Munirul ^a   Hamabata, T ^b   Takeda, Yoshifumi ^c   Sack, David A ^a   Nair, G Balakrish ^a  

^a ICDDRB Laboratory Sciences Division   (Bangladesh)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Cine Science Laboratory   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHOLERA; DIARRHEA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

AGGLUTINATION TESTS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BASE SEQUENCE; CHOLERA; CHOLERA TOXIN; DNA, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMYXIN B; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VIBRIO CHOLERAE O1; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 33750837264     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.46689-0     Document Type: Article

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