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Analysis of 19 Highly Conserved <i>Vibrio cholerae</i> Bacteriophages Isolated from Environmental and Patient Sources Over a Twelve-Year Period
2018-05-02
Abstract excerpt
The Vibrio cholerae biotype ‘El Tor’ is responsible for all current epidemic and endemic cholera outbreaks worldwide. These outbreaks are clonal and are hypothesized to originate from the coastal areas near the Bay of Bengal where the lytic bacteriophage ICP1 specifically preys upon these pathogenic outbreak strains. ICP1 has also been the dominant bacteriophage found in cholera patient stool since 2001. However,...
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- Literature Corpus work
- cb86e568-75f2-5e8e-abbd-f95715ae332d
- DOI
- 10.1101/313346
