Relatedness of Vibrio cholerae O1/O139 isolates from patients and their household contacts, determined by multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 192, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 4367-4376

  Kendall, Emily A ^a,c   Chowdhury, Fahima ^a   Begum, Yasmin ^a   Khan, Ashraful I ^a   Li, Shan ^b   Thierer, James H ^b   Bailey, Jason ^b   Kreisel, Kristen ^b   Tacket, Carol O ^b   LaRocque, Regina C ^c   Harris, Jason B ^c   Ryan, Edward T ^c   Qadri, Firdausi ^a   Calderwood, Stephen B ^c   Stine, O Colin ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BANGLADESH; FECES; GENOTYPE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TANDEM REPEAT; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHOLERA; CLASSIFICATION; CONTACT EXAMINATION; EPIDEMIC; FAMILY SIZE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY;

VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIAL DNA;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BANGLADESH; CHOLERA; CONTACT TRACING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE O1; VIBRIO CHOLERAE O139;

EID: 77956518764     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00698-10     Document Type: Article

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