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Ecology and genetic structure of a northern temperate Vibrio cholerae population related to toxigenic isolates.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Nov 2011
Schuster Brian M, Tyzik Anna L, Donner Rachel A, Striplin Megan J, Almagro-Moreno Salvador, Jones Stephen H, Cooper Vaughn S, Whistler Cheryl A
Abstract excerpt
Although Vibrio cholerae is an important human pathogen, little is known about its populations in regions where the organism is endemic but where cholera disease is rare. A total of 31 independent isolates confirmed as V. cholerae were collected from water, sediment, and oysters in 2008 and 2009 from the Great Bay Estuary (GBE) in New Hampshire, a location where the organism has never been detected. Environmental...
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