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Characterization of Vibrio cholerae O139 belonging to multiple ribotypes and isolated from diarrhoeal patients in Kerala, southern India.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Mar 2011
Fazil M H U Turabe, Bhanumathi R, Pandey H P, Singh D V
Abstract excerpt
Twenty-four Vibrio cholerae O139 strains isolated from Kerala, southern India were characterized by PCR, CTX typing and ribotyping; all of which, except three strains, carried the core of the CTX genetic element, colonization-toxin co-regulated pilus, the adherence outer membrane protein, haemolysin, central regulatory protein encoded toxR, SXT genetic element, and produced cholera toxin and biofilm. Results of...
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