Genetic analysis of CTX prophages with special reference to ctxB and rstR alleles of Vibrio cholerae O139 strains isolated from Kolkata over a decade

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 303, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 107-115

  Raychoudhuri, Amit ^a   Mukherjee, Piyali ^a   Ramamurthy, Thandavarayan ^a   Nandy, Ranjan K ^a   Takeda, Yoshifumi ^b   Nair, Gopinath B ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Asish K ^a  

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

^b Okayama University for Infectious Diseases   (India)

Author keywords

Cholera toxin genotype; CTX prophages; CtxB; RstR alleles; Vibrio cholerae

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN CTXB; PROTEIN RSTR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; INDIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHAGE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ALLELES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHOLERA; CHOLERA TOXIN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INDIA; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROPHAGES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE O139;

VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 75149163377     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2009.01856.x     Document Type: Article

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