Indigenous Vibrio cholerae strains from a non-endemic region are pathogenic

Open Biology

Volumn 3, Issue FEB, 2013, Pages

  Islam, Atiqul ^a   Labbate, Maurizio ^a   Djordjevic, Steven P ^a   Alam, Munirul ^b   Darling, Aaron ^c   Melvold, Jacqueline ^a   Holmes, Andrew J ^d   Johura, Fatema T ^b   Cravioto, Alejandro ^e   Charles, Ian G ^a   Stokes, H W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ICDDRB Laboratory Sciences Division   (Bangladesh)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e International Vaccine Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cholera; Environmental; Lateral genetic transfer; Vibrio cholerae; Virulence

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHOLERA; EPIDEMIC; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PATHOGENICITY; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; GENETIC VARIATION;

AUSTRALIA; CHOLERA; CHOLERA TOXIN; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84877755630     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20462441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsob.120181     Document Type: Article

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