Cholera between 1991 and 1997 in Mexico was associated with infection by classical, El Tor, and El Tor variants of Vibrio cholerae

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3666-3674

  Alam, Munirul ^a   Nusrin, Suraia ^a   Islam, Atiqul ^a   Bhuiyan, Nurul A ^a   Rahim, Niaz ^a   Delgado, Gabriela ^b   Morales, Rosario ^b   Mendez, Jose Luis ^b   Navarro, Armando ^b   Gil, Ana I ^c   Watanabe, Haruo ^d   Morita, Masatomo ^d   Nair, G Balakrish ^e   Cravioto, Alejandro ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN NUTRICIONAL   (Peru)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ASIA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOTYPE; CHOLERA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIC; MEXICO; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PERU; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROTYPING; SOUTH AMERICA; STEM CELL;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHOLERA; CHOLERA TOXIN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MEXICO; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PROPHAGES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEROTYPING; VIBRIO CHOLERAE O1;

VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 77957793057     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00866-10     Document Type: Article

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