Cholera outbreaks caused by an altered Vibrio cholerae O1 El tor biotype strain producing classical cholera toxin B in Vietnam in 2007 to 2008

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1568-1571

  Binh, Minh Nguyen ^a   Je, Hee Lee ^b,c   Ngo, Tuan Cuong ^a   Seon, Young Choi ^b,c   Nguyen, Tran Hien ^a   Dang, Duc Anh ^a   Hye, Ri Lee ^b   Ansaruzzaman, M ^d   Endtz, Hubert P ^d   Chun, Jongsik ^b,c   Lopez, Anna Lena ^b   Czerkinsky, Cecil ^b   Clemens, John D ^b   Dong, Wook Kim ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Viet Nam)

^b International Vaccine Institute   (South Korea)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^d INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN B SUBUNIT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHOLERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHAGE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIET NAM;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHOLERA; CHOLERA TOXIN; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, VIRAL; GENE ORDER; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROPHAGES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYNTENY; VIBRIO CHOLERAE O1; VIETNAM;

VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 66149094565     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02040-08     Document Type: Article

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