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Amplified fragment length polymorphism of clinical and environmental Vibrio cholerae from a freshwater environment in a cholera-endemic area, India.
BMC infectious diseases - 22 Sept 2011
Mishra Arti, Taneja Neelam, Sharma Ram K, Kumar Rahul, Sharma Naresh C, Sharma Meera
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BACKGROUND: The region around Chandigarh in India has witnessed a resurgence of cholera. However, isolation of V. cholerae O1 from the environment is infrequent. Therefore, to study whether environmental nonO1-nonO139 isolates, which are native to the aquatic ecosystem, act as precursors for pathogenic O1 strains, their virulence potential and evolutionary relatedness was checked. METHODS: V. cholerae was...
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