Preferential association of the heat-stable enterotoxin gene (stn) with environmental strains of Vibrio cholerae belonging to the O14 serogroup.

Toxigenic Vibrio cholerae O1 and O139 serogroups have the capacity of causing epidemic and pandemic cholera but are infrequently found in the environment. The other serogroups are abundant in aquatic environments but do not possess the virulence genes necessary for causing the disease. Of the 559 en...

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Main Authors: Sarkar, B., Bhattacharya, T., Ramamurthy, T., Shimada, T., Takeda, Y., Balakrish Nair, G.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Cambridge University Press 2002
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2869883/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12403100
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