Comparative genome analysis of VSP-II and SNPs reveals heterogenic variation in contemporary strains of Vibrio cholerae O1 isolated from cholera patients in Kolkata, India.

• Main Authors: Daisuke Imamura (Author), Masatomo Morita (Author), Tsuyoshi Sekizuka (Author), Tamaki Mizuno (Author), Taichiro Takemura (Author), Tetsu Yamashiro (Author), Goutam Chowdhury (Author), Gururaja P Pazhani (Author), Asish K Mukhopadhyay (Author), Thandavarayan Ramamurthy (Author), Shin-Ichi Miyoshi (Author), Makoto Kuroda (Author), Sumio Shinoda (Author), Makoto Ohnishi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-02-01T00:00:00Z.
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Cholera is an acute diarrheal disease and a major public health problem in many developing countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Since the Bay of Bengal is considered the epicenter for the seventh cholera pandemic, it is important to understand the genetic dynamism of Vibrio cholerae from Ko...