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Genotypic and Phenotypic Assays to Distinguish Vibrio cholerae Biotype.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) - 1 Jan 2018
Brumfield Kyle D, Carignan Bailey M, Son Mike S
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Vibrio cholerae is a motile gram-negative bacterium found in brackish water and the etiological agent of the fecal-oral disease cholera. Classical and El Tor are two main biotypes that make up the V. cholerae O1 serogroup, which each display unique genotypic and phenotypic characteristics that allow for reliable biotype characterization. While treatment for cholera is much the same despite the causative strain's...
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