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Emergence and progression of Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor variants and progenitor strains of Mozambique variants in Kolkata, India.
International journal of medical microbiology : IJMM - 1 Apr 2011
Patra T, Chatterjee S, Raychoudhuri A, Mukhopadhyay A K, Ramamurthy T, Nandy R K
Abstract excerpt
Analysis of 75 Vibrio cholerae O1 strains isolated from hospitalized patients in Kolkata from 1989 to 1994 revealed the existence of true El Tor along with El Tor variants that possessed the classical allele of ctxB (ctxB(cl)) in strains having an El Tor backbone. Based on the existence of different combinations of ctxB and rstR alleles and their localization sites in the genome, these strains were classified...
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