Vibrio cholerae Non-O1, Non-O139 Serogroups and Cholera-like Diarrhea, Kolkata, India

Authors :: Thandavarayan Ramamurthy
Santanu Ghosh
Sucharita Guin
Asish K. Mukhopadhyay
Yoshifumi Takeda
Krishnan Rajendran
Ranjan K. Nandy
Sanjucta Dutta
Utpala Mitra
Devarati Dutta
Goutam Chowdhury
G. Balakrish Nair
Gururaja P. Pazhani
Mihir K. Bhattacharya
Source :: Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 19, Iss 3, Pp 464-467 (2013), Emerging Infectious Diseases
Publication Year :: 2013
Publisher :: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2013.
Abstract: We identified 281 Vibrio cholerae non-O1, non-O139 strains from patients with diarrhea in Kolkata, India. Cholera-like diarrhea was the major symptom (66.0%); some patients (20.3%) had severe dehydration. These strains lacked the ctxA gene but many had hlyA, rtxA, and rtxC genes. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis showed no genetic link among strains.

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