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Vibrio cholerae O1 clinical strains isolated in 1992 in Kolkata with progenitor traits of the 2004 Mozambique variant.
Journal of medical microbiology - 1 Feb 2009
Chatterjee Souvik, Patra Tapas, Ghosh Kausik, Raychoudhuri Amit, Pazhani Gururaja P, Das Mayukh, Sarkar Banwarilal, Bhadra Rupak K, Mukhopadhyay Asish K, Takeda Yoshifumi, Nair G Balakrish, Ramamurthy Thandavarayan, Nandy Ranjan K
Abstract excerpt
Retrospective analysis led to the detection of two Vibrio cholerae variant O1 strains (VC51 and VC53), which were isolated in 1992 in Kolkata from clinical cases, with identical traits to 2004 Mozambique variant O1 strains. The Mozambique O1 strains that caused a huge outbreak in 2004 have been shown to have phenotypic traits of both classical and El Tor biotypes, and thereby have been reported as variant. Our...
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