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Characterization of VPI pathogenicity island and CTXphi prophage in environmental strains of Vibrio cholerae.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Aug 2001
Mukhopadhyay A K, Chakraborty S, Takeda Y, Nair G B, Berg D E
Abstract excerpt
Environmental isolates of Vibrio cholerae of eight randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) fingerprint types from Calcutta, India, that were unusual in containing toxin-coregulated pilus or cholera toxin genes but not O1 or O139 antigens of epidemic strains were studied by PCR and sequencing to gain insights into V. cholerae evolution. We found that each isolate contained a variant form of the VPI pathogenicity...
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