A large cholera outbreak due to a new cholera toxin variant of the Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor biotype in Orissa, Eastern India

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 234-238

  Kumar, P ^a   Jain, M ^a   Goel, A K ^a   Bhadauria, S ^a   Sharma, S K ^a   Kamboj, D V ^a   Singh, L ^a   Ramamurthy, T ^b   Nair, G B ^b  

^a DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ESTABLISHMENT   (India)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN;

ACE GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOTYPE; CHOLERA; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CTXAB GENE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EPIDEMIC; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HLYA GENE; INDIA; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OMPU GENE; OMPW GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; RFBO1 GENE; RTX GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROTYPE; TCP GENE; TOXR GENE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE O1 ELTOR; ZOT GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHOLERA; CHOLERA TOXIN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INDIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION, MISSENSE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE O1; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 59949092995     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.002089-0     Document Type: Article

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