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Molecular analysis of non-O1, non-O139 Vibrio cholerae associated with an unusual upsurge in the incidence of cholera-like disease in Calcutta, India.

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Title Molecular analysis of non-O1, non-O139 Vibrio cholerae associated with an unusual upsurge in the incidence of cholera-like disease in Calcutta, India.
 
Creator Sharma, C
Thungapathra, M
Ghosh, A
Mukhopadhyay, A K
Basu, A
Mitra, R
Basu, I
Bhattacharya, S K
Shimada, T
Ramamurthy, T
Takeda, T
Yamasaki, S
Takeda, Y
Nair, G B
 
Subject QR Microbiology
 
Description There was an inexplicable upsurge in the incidence of non-O1, non-O139 Vibrio cholerae among hospitalized patients admitted to the Infectious Diseases Hospital, Calcutta, India, between February and March 1996. Of the 18 strains of V. cholerae isolated during this period, 15 belonged to the non-O1, non-O139 serogroups (4 belonged to O144, 3 belonged to O11, 1 each belonged to O6, O8, O12, O19, O39, and O58, and 2 strains could not be typed), 2 belonged to the O139 serogroup, and 1 belonged to the O1 serogroup. Cell-free culture supernatants of 13 representative non-O1, non-O139 V. cholerae strains evoked a distinct cytotoxic effect on CHO and HeLa cells, and the strains examined produced the nonmembrane-damaging cytotoxin. By several PCR assays, it was determined that none of the non-O1, non-O139 strains were positive for the ctxA, zot, ace, and tcpA genes and for the genes representing the heat-labile toxin, heat-stable toxin, and verotoxin of Escherichia coli and the various variants of these genes. Studies on the clonality of non-O1, non-O139 V. cholerae strains by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis of rRNA genes and of other genes (hlyA, hlyU, hlx, toxR, and attRS1) and by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) collectively indicate that the upsurge which occurred in February and March 1996 was caused by strains belonging to different clones. Overall, there was an excellent correlation between the results of ribotyping, RFLP analysis of various genes, and PFGE, with strains belonging to a particular serogroup showing nearly identical restriction patterns and PFGE profiles. It is clear from this study that some serogroups of V. cholerae can cause diarrhea by a mechanism quite different from that of toxigenic V. cholerae O1 and O139, and we have proposed the nomenclature of enteropathogenic V. cholerae to include these serogroups.
 
Publisher ASM
 
Date 1998-03
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
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Identifier http://crdd.osdd.net/open/360/1/charu98.pdf
Sharma, C and Thungapathra, M and Ghosh, A and Mukhopadhyay, A K and Basu, A and Mitra, R and Basu, I and Bhattacharya, S K and Shimada, T and Ramamurthy, T and Takeda, T and Yamasaki, S and Takeda, Y and Nair, G B (1998) Molecular analysis of non-O1, non-O139 Vibrio cholerae associated with an unusual upsurge in the incidence of cholera-like disease in Calcutta, India. Journal of clinical microbiology, 36 (3). pp. 756-63. ISSN 0095-1137
 
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