Emergence and progression of Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor variants and progenitor strains of Mozambique variants in Kolkata, India

International Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 301, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 310-317

  Patra, T ^a   Chatterjee, S ^a   Raychoudhuri, A ^a   Mukhopadhyay, A K ^a   Ramamurthy, T ^a   Nandy, R K ^a  

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

Author keywords

Cholera; CtxB; El Tor variants; Mozambique variants; V. cholerae

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; KANAMYCIN; PROTEIN CTXB; PROTEIN RSTR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHOLERA; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INDIA; NONHUMAN; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHOLERA; CHOLERA TOXIN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INDIA; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE O1; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 79952700470     PISSN: 14384221     EISSN: 16180607     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmm.2010.11.003     Document Type: Article

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