Prevalence of Virulence Genes and Cytolethal Distending Toxin Production inCampylobacter jejuniIsolates from Diarrheal Patients in Bangladesh | Zendy

Kaisar A. Talukder | Zendy; Mohammad Aslam | Zendy; Zhahirul Islam | Zendy; Ishrat J. Azmi | Zendy; Dilip Dutta | Zendy; Sabir Hossain | Zendy; Alam NurEKamal | Zendy; G. Balakrish Nair | Zendy; Alejandro Cravioto | Zendy; David A. Sack | Zendy; Hubert P. Endtz | Zendy

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Prevalence of Virulence Genes and Cytolethal Distending Toxin Production inCampylobacter jejuniIsolates from Diarrheal Patients in Bangladesh

Author(s) -

Kaisar A. Talukder,

Mohammad Aslam,

Zhahirul Islam,

Ishrat J. Azmi,

Dilip Dutta,

Sabir Hossain,

Alam NurEKamal,

G. Balakrish Nair,

Alejandro Cravioto,

David A. Sack,

Hubert P. Endtz

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

journal of clinical microbiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.349

H-Index - 255

eISSN - 1070-633X

pISSN - 0095-1137

DOI - 10.1128/jcm.01912-07

Subject(s) - cytolethal distending toxin , microbiology and biotechnology , campylobacter jejuni , virulence , toxin , biology , campylobacter , diarrhea , virology , shigella , gene , bacteria , medicine , microbial toxins , salmonella , genetics

From 300 stool samples, 58 Campylobacter strains were isolated by standard microbiological and biochemical methods. Of these, 40 strains were identified as Campylobacter jejuni and 5 as Campylobacter coli. The presence of flaA (100%), cadF (100%), racR (100%), dnaJ (100%), pldA (100%), ciaB (95%), virB11 (0%), ceuE (82.5%), cdtA (97.5%), cdtB (97.5%), cdtC (97.5%), and wlaN (7.5%) genes was detected in C. jejuni by PCR. All C. jejuni strains but one produced cytolethal distending toxin in a HeLa cell assay.

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