Article
New variants of Vibrio cholerae O1 biotype El Tor with attributes of the classical biotype from hospitalized patients with acute diarrhea in Bangladesh.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Sept 2002
Nair G Balakrish, Faruque Shah M, Bhuiyan N A, Kamruzzaman M, Siddique A K, Sack David A
Abstract excerpt
The sixth pandemic of cholera and, presumably, the earlier pandemics were caused by the classical biotype of Vibrio cholerae O1, which was progressively replaced by the El Tor biotype representing the seventh cholera pandemic. Although the classical biotype of V. cholerae O1 is extinct, even in southern Bangladesh, the last of the niches where this biotype prevailed, we have identified new varieties of V....
Topics
- Acute Disease
- Bacterial Proteins
- Bacterial Typing Techniques
- Bangladesh
- Cholera
- Diarrhea
- Genetic Variation
- Genotype
- Hospitalization
- Humans
- Phenotype
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Vibrio cholerae