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Evolution of new variants of Vibrio cholerae O1.
Trends in microbiology - 1 Jan 2010
Safa Ashrafus, Nair G Balakrish, Kong Richard Y C
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Vibrio cholerae typically contains a prophage that carries the genes encoding the cholera toxin, which is responsible for the major clinical symptoms of the disease. In recent years, new pathogenic variants of V. cholerae have emerged and spread throughout many Asian and African countries. These variants display a mixture of phenotypic and genotypic traits from the two main biotypes (known as 'classical' and 'El...
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