Cholera toxin production by the El Tor variant of Vibrio cholerae O1 compared to prototype El Tor and classical biotypes

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 4283-4286

  Ghosh Banerjee, J ^a   Senoh, M ^b   Takahashi, T ^b   Hamabata, T ^c   Barman, S ^a   Koley, H ^a   Mukhopadhyay, A K ^a   Ramamurthy, T ^a   Chatterjee, S ^d   Asakura, M ^d   Yamasaki, S ^d   Nair, G B ^a   Takeda, Y ^b  

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

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN B SUBUNIT; POLYMYXIN B;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CENTRIFUGATION; COLONY FORMING UNIT; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; INOCULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHOLERA TOXIN; CULTURE MEDIA; HUMANS; ILEUM; RABBITS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE O1; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 78049491291     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00799-10     Document Type: Article

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