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Epidemiological investigation of a fatal case of cholera in Japan by phenotypic techniques and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis.
Journal of medical microbiology - 1 Mar 2002
Matsumoto M, Suzuki M, Hiramatsu R, Yamazaki M, Matsui H, Sakae K, Suzuki Y, Miyazaki Y
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A fatal case of cholera caused by Vibrio cholerae 01 El Tor serotype Ogawa occurred in Aichi Prefecture, Japan in 1995. The patient was identified locally, but the route of the infection was unknown. The causative isolate and 38 other domestic and imported V. cholerae O1 isolates, obtained between 1984 and 1997, were analysed by prophage typing, antimicrobial susceptibility testing and pulsed-field gel...
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