Article
The emerging diversity of the electrophoretic types of Vibrio cholerae in the Western Hemisphere.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Jul 1995
Evins G M, Cameron D N, Wells J G, Greene K D, Popovic T, Giono-Cerezo S, Wachsmuth I K, Tauxe R V
Abstract excerpt
Since the Latin American cholera epidemic began in 1991, 447 isolates of Vibrio cholerae O1 from the Western Hemisphere have been assayed by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis (MEE) to determine allelic variation among 16 enzyme-encoding genes. Two electrophoretic types (ETs) were identified among...
Topics
- Asia, Southeastern
- Cholera
- DNA, Bacterial
- Electrophoresis, Agar Gel
- Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
- Enzymes
- Fruit
- Genetic Variation
- Humans
- Latin America
- Phenotype
- Phylogeny
- Seawater
- United States
- Vibrio cholerae
- Water Microbiology