Molecular characterization of high-level-cholera-toxin-producing el Tor variant Vibrio Cholerae strains in the zanzibar archipelago of Tanzania

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1040-1045

  Naha, A ^a   Chowdhury, G ^a   Ghosh Banerjee, J ^a   Senoh, M ^b   Takahashi, T ^b   Ley, B ^c   Thriemer, K ^c   Deen, J ^c   Seidlein, L V ^d   Ali, S M ^e,f   Khatib, A ^e   Ramamurthy, T ^a   Nandy, R K ^a   Nair, G B ^a   Takeda, Y ^b   Mukhopadhyay, A K ^a  

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

^b NICED ^*  (India)

^c International Vaccine Institute   (South Korea)

^d MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^e Ministry of Health Zanzibar   (Tanzania)

^f Public Health Laboratory   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOTYPE; CTXB GENE; FECES ANALYSIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RSTR GENE; RTXC GENE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TANZANIA; TCPA GENE; TOXIN SYNTHESIS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHOLERA; CHOLERA TOXIN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FECES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR TYPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TANZANIA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE O1;

EID: 84874064453     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.03162-12     Document Type: Article

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