Cholera due to altered El Tor strains of Vibrio cholerae O1 in Bangladesh

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 4211-4213

  Nair, G Balakrish ^a,d   Qadri, Firdausi ^a   Holmgren, Jan ^b   Svennerholm, Ann Mari ^b   Safa, Ashrafus ^a   Bhuiyan, Nurul A ^a   Ahmad, Q Shafi ^a   Faruque, Shah M ^a   Faruque, A S G ^a   Takeda, Yoshifumi ^c   Sack, David A ^a  

^a ICDDR B Centre for Health and Population Research   (Bangladesh)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c Cine Science Laboratory   (Japan)

^d ICDDRB Laboratory Sciences Division   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BANGLADESH; BIOTYPE; CHOLERA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHOLERA; CHOLERA TOXIN; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE O1;

VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 33750956238     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01304-06     Document Type: Article

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