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Molecular evidence that a distinct Vibrio cholerae O1 biotype El Tor strain in Calcutta may have spread to the African continent.

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Title Molecular evidence that a distinct Vibrio cholerae O1 biotype El Tor strain in Calcutta may have spread to the African continent.
 
Creator Sharma, C
Ghosh, A
Dalsgaard, A
Forslund, A
Ghosh, R K
Bhattacharya, S K
Nair, G B
 
Subject QR Microbiology
 
Description We present molecular evidence that a distinct genotype of Vibrio cholerae O1 which appeared in Calcutta, India, in September 1993 and which is characterized by a unique ribotype that is not found in the standardized ribotyping scheme of V. cholerae and that shows a specific pulsed-field gel electrophoresis profile may have spread to the west African country of Guinea-Bissau where it was responsible for an epidemic of cholera which began in October 1994 and continued into 1996.
 
Publisher ASM
 
Date 1998-03
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://crdd.osdd.net/open/359/1/charu98.1.pdf
Sharma, C and Ghosh, A and Dalsgaard, A and Forslund, A and Ghosh, R K and Bhattacharya, S K and Nair, G B (1998) Molecular evidence that a distinct Vibrio cholerae O1 biotype El Tor strain in Calcutta may have spread to the African continent. Journal of clinical microbiology, 36 (3). pp. 843-4. ISSN 0095-1137
 
Relation http://jcm.asm.org/content/36/3/843.full.pdf+html
http://crdd.osdd.net/open/359/