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Molecular basis of ribotype variation in the seventh pandemic clone and its O139 variant of Vibrio cholerae.
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz - 1 Jan 2000
Lan R, Reeves P R
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Ribotyping has been widely used to characterise the seventh pandemic clone including South American and O139 variants which appeared in 1991 and 1992 respectively. To reveal the molecular basis of ribotype variation we analysed the rrn operons and their flanking regions. All but one variation detected by BglI, the most discriminatory enzyme, was found to be due to changes within the rrn operons, resulting from...
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