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. 2006 Nov;44(11):4211-3.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.01304-06. Epub 2006 Sep 6.

Cholera due to altered El Tor strains of Vibrio cholerae O1 in Bangladesh

G Balakrish Nair  1 , Firdausi Qadri, Jan Holmgren, Ann-Mari Svennerholm, Ashrafus Safa, Nurul A Bhuiyan, Q Shafi Ahmad, Shah M Faruque, A S G Faruque, Yoshifumi Takeda, David A Sack
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Cholera due to altered El Tor strains of Vibrio cholerae O1 in Bangladesh

G Balakrish Nair et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2006 Nov.

Abstract

We determined the types of cholera toxin (CT) produced by a collection of 185 Vibrio cholerae O1 strains isolated in Bangladesh over the past 45 years. All of the El Tor strains of V. cholerae O1 isolated since 2001 produced CT of the classical biotype, while those isolated before 2001 produced CT of the El Tor biotype.

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FIG. 1.
Amino acid sequence alignment of CT B subunits of representative El Tor V. cholerae isolates from Dhaka, Bangladesh, isolated between 2001 and 2005, that produced the classical subtype of CT, plotted relative to the El Tor reference (identical residues are indicated with dots). The amino acid sequences of the B subunits of V. cholerae 569B (classical) and N16961 (El Tor) were obtained from GenBank.
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