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Peruvian Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor strains possess a distinct region in the Vibrio seventh pandemic island-II that differentiates them from the prototype seventh pandemic El Tor strains

Nusrin, Suraia, Gil, Ana I., Bhuiyan, N. A., Safa, Ashrafus, Asakura, Masahiro, Lanata, Claudio F., Hall, E., Miranda, H., Huapaya, B., Vargas G., Carmen, Luna, M. A., Sack, D. A., Yamasaki, Shinji, Nair, G. Balakrish

Journal of Medical Microbiology 2009; 58(3):342 · https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.005397-0

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Abstract

1 Enteric and Food Microbiology Unit, Laboratory Sciences Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh (ICDDR, B), Dhaka, Bangladesh

2 Instituto de Investigación Nutricional, Lima, Peru

3 Department of Biology and Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong

4 Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka, Japan

5 Naval Medical Research Center Detachment, Lima, Peru

6 Instituto de Medicina Tropical e Infectologia, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional de Trujillo, Trujillo, Peru

7 Instituto Nacional de Salud, Lima Peru

8 CEPIS/SDE/OPS/OMS, Lima, Peru

9 Oficina General de Epidemiología, Lima, Peru

10 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA

11 National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, P-33, CIT Scheme XM, Beliaghata, Kolkata 700 010, India