High prevalence and diversity of pre-CTXΦ alleles in the environmental Vibrio choleraeO1 and O139 strains in the Zhujiang River estuary

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 251-258

  Wang, Duochun ^a,b   Wang, Xiaomei ^a   Li, Baisheng ^c   Deng, Xiaoling ^c   Tan, Hailing ^c   Diao, Baowei ^a,b   Chen, Jingdiao ^c   Ke, Bixia ^c   Zhong, Haojie ^c   Zhou, Haijian ^a,b   Ke, Changwen ^c   Kan, Biao ^a,b  

^a CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b GUANGZHOU CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^c Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases ^*  (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIMBRIA PROTEIN; TCPA PROTEIN, VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ALLELE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENE ORDER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROPHAGE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME;

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; GENE ORDER; GENES, VIRAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, VIRAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROPHAGES; VIBRIO CHOLERAE O1; VIBRIO CHOLERAE O139;

EID: 84899708540     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12121     Document Type: Article

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