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Molecular characterization of high-level-cholera-toxin-producing El Tor variant Vibrio cholerae strains in the Zanzibar Archipelago of Tanzania.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Mar 2013
Naha A, Chowdhury G, Ghosh-Banerjee J, Senoh M, Takahashi T, Ley B, Thriemer K, Deen J, Seidlein L V, Ali S M, Khatib A, Ramamurthy T, Nandy R K, Nair G B, Takeda Y, Mukhopadhyay A K
Abstract excerpt
Analysis of 1,180 diarrheal stool samples in Zanzibar detected 247 Vibrio cholerae O1, Ogawa strains in 2009. Phenotypic traits and PCR-based detection of rstR, rtxC, and tcpA alleles showed that they belonged to the El Tor biotype. Genetic analysis of ctxB of these strains revealed that they wer...
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