Emergence and genetic diversity of El Tor Vibrio cholerae O1 that possess classical biotype ctxB among travel-associated cases of cholera in Japan

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 708-712

  Morita, Masatomo ^a   Ohnishi, Makoto ^a   Arakawa, Eiji ^a   Yamamoto, Shouji ^a   Nair, G Balakrish ^b   Matsushita, Shigeru ^c   Yokoyama, Keiko ^c   Kai, Akemi ^c   Seto, Kazuko ^d   Watanabe, Haruo ^a   Izumiya, Hidemasa ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

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

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^d OSAKA PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN B SUBUNIT; CHOLERA TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHOLERA; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; TRAVEL; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHOLERA; CHOLERA TOXIN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; TRAVEL; VIBRIO CHOLERAE O1;

EID: 77953011338     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.017624-0     Document Type: Article

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