creators_name: Sharma, C
creators_name: Ghosh, A
creators_name: Dalsgaard, A
creators_name: Forslund, A
creators_name: Ghosh, R K
creators_name: Bhattacharya, S K
creators_name: Nair, G B
type: article
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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.
ispublished: pub
subjects: QR
full_text_status: restricted
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abstract: 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.
date: 1998-03
date_type: published
publication: Journal of clinical microbiology
volume: 36
number: 3
publisher: ASM
pagerange: 843-4
refereed: TRUE
issn: 0095-1137
official_url: http://jcm.asm.org/content/36/3/843.full.pdf+html
related_url_url: http://jcm.asm.org/content/36/3/843.full.pdf+html
related_url_type: pub
citation:   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     
document_url: http://crdd.osdd.net/open/359/1/charu98.1.pdf