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New V. cholerae atypical El Tor variant emerged during the 2006 epidemic outbreak in Angola.
BMC microbiology - 13 Jun 2011
Ceccarelli Daniela, Spagnoletti Matteo, Bacciu Donatella, Cappuccinelli Piero, Colombo Mauro M
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BACKGROUND: V. cholerae is the etiological agent of cholera, a major public health concern in most developing countries. Virulence of V. cholerae relies on the powerful cholera toxin, encoded by the CTX prophage. The emergence of new pathogenic variants in the recent years has been mostly associated with new CTX prophage rearrangements. RESULTS: In this retrospective study, we show that the epidemic V. cholerae...
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