A large cholera outbreak due to a new cholera toxin variant of the Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor biotype in Orissa, Eastern India.

doi:10.1099/jmm.0.002089-0

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A large cholera outbreak due to a new cholera toxin variant of the Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor biotype in Orissa, Eastern India.

Journal of medical microbiology - 1 Feb 2009

Kumar P, Jain M, Goel A K, Bhadauria S, Sharma S K, Kamboj D V, Singh L, Ramamurthy T, Nair G B

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A total of 32 Vibrio cholerae isolates were collected during a recent large cholera outbreak in Eastern India. Biochemical and serological studies revealed that all of the isolates belonged to serogroup O1, biotype El Tor, serotype Ogawa. Two multiplex PCR assays confirmed the presence of various toxigenic and pathogenic genes - ace, ctxAB, hlyA, ompU, ompW, rfbO1, rtx, tcp, toxR and zot - in all of the isolates....

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DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.002089-0

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