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Molecular comparison of toxigenic clinical & non-toxigenic environmental strains of Vibrio cholerae O1 Ogawa isolated during an outbreak of cholera in south India.
The Indian journal of medical research - 1 Sept 2001
Sinha S, Chowdhury P, Chowdhury N R, Kamruzzaman M, Faruque S M, Ramamurthy T, Bhattacharya S K, Yamasaki S, Takeda Y, Nair G B
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BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES: While investigating a cholera outbreak in south India, toxigenic and nontoxigenic strains of Vibrio cholerae O1 were isolated from patients and from the environment, respectively. This study was performed to compare the genetic relatedness of the patient and environmental strains to determine clonal relationships among these strains and thereby determine the source of the cholera...
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