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Epidemiological study of Vibrio cholerae using variable number of tandem repeats.
FEMS microbiology letters - 1 Nov 2008
Ghosh Raikamal, Nair G Balakrish, Tang Li, Morris J Glenn, Sharma Naresh C, Ballal Mamatha, Garg Pallavi, Ramamurthy Thandavarayan, Stine O Colin
Abstract excerpt
By conventional genetic methods, including pulse-field gel electrophoresis and multilocus sequence typing, most pathogenic, cholera toxin-positive O1 and O139 isolates of Vibrio cholerae cannot be distinguished. We evaluated relationships among 173 V. cholerae isolates collected between 1992 and 2007 from different geographic areas in India by analyzing five variable number of tandem repeat (VNTR) loci. Each VNTR...
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