Role of shrimp chitin in the ecology of toxigenic Vibrio cholerae and cholera transmission

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue JAN, 2012, Pages

  Nahar, Shamsun ^a,b   Sultana, Marzia ^a   Naser, M Niamul ^b   Nair, Gopinath B ^a,c   Watanabe, Haruo ^d   Ohnishi, Makoto ^d   Yamamoto, Shouji ^d   Endtz, Hubert ^a   Cravioto, Alejandro ^a   Sack, R Bradley ^e   Hasan, Nur A ^f   Sadique, Abdus ^a   Huq, Anwar ^f   Colwell, Rita R ^e,f,g   Alam, Munirul ^a  

^a ICDDRB Laboratory Sciences Division   (Bangladesh)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

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

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f University of Maryland   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofilm; Chitin; Cholera; Ecology; Shrimp; Transmission

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 84875760872     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2011.00260     Document Type: Article

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