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Genome-wide study of the defective sucrose fermenter strain of Vibrio cholerae from the Latin American cholera epidemic.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Garza Daniel Rios, Thompson Cristiane C, Loureiro Edvaldo Carlos Brito, Dutilh Bas E, Inada Davi Toshio, Junior Edivaldo Costa Sousa, Cardoso Jedson Ferreira, Nunes Márcio Roberto T, de Lima Clayton Pereira Silva, Silvestre Rodrigo Vellasco Duarte, Nunes Keley Nascimento Barbosa, Santos Elisabeth C O, Edwards Robert A, Vicente Ana Carolina P, de Sá Morais Lena Lillian Canto
Abstract excerpt
The 7th cholera pandemic reached Latin America in 1991, spreading from Peru to virtually all Latin American countries. During the late epidemic period, a strain that failed to ferment sucrose dominated cholera outbreaks in the Northern Brazilian Amazon region. In order to understand the genomic characteristics and the determinants of this altered sucrose fermenting phenotype, the genome of the strain IEC224 was...
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