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Environmental prevalence of toxigenic Vibrio cholerae O1 in Bangladesh coincides with V. cholerae non-O1 non-O139 genetic variants which overproduce autoinducer-2.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2021
Naser Iftekhar Bin, Shishir Tushar Ahmed, Faruque Shah Nayeem, Hoque M Mozammel, Hasan Anamul, Faruque Shah M
Abstract excerpt
Prevalence of toxigenic Vibrio cholerae O1 in aquatic reservoirs in Bangladesh apparently increases coinciding with the occurrence of seasonal cholera epidemics. In between epidemics, these bacteria persist in water mostly as dormant cells, known as viable but non-culturable cells (VBNC), or conditionally viable environmental cells (CVEC), that fail to grow in routine culture. CVEC resuscitate to active cells...
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