Haitian variant tcpA in Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor strains in Kolkata, India

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1020-1021

  Ghosh, Priyanka ^a   Naha, Arindam ^a   Basak, Surajit ^b   Ghosh, Santanu ^a   Ramamurthy, T ^a   Koley, Hemanta ^a   Nandy, Ranjan K ^a   Shinoda, Sumio ^c   Watanabe, Haruo ^d   Mukhopadhyay, Asish K ^a  

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

^b TRIPURA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMPLICON; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INDIA; LETTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TCPA GENE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; DNA, BACTERIAL; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INDIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE O1;

EID: 84894542495     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.03042-13     Document Type: Letter

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