Open AccessHaitian Variant tcpA in Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor Strains in Kolkata, India
Author(s) -
Priyanka Ghosh,
Arindam Naha,
Surajit Basak,
Santanu Ghosh,
Thandavarayan Ramamurthy,
Hemanta Koley,
Ranjan K. Nandy,
Sumió Shinoda,
Haruo Watanabe,
Asish K. Mukhopadhyay
Publication year - 2013
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.03042-13
Subject(s) - vibrio cholerae , el tor , prophage , pilus , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , pathogenicity island , vibrionaceae , cholera , cholera toxin , whole genome sequencing , strain (injury) , colonization , pathogenicity , genome , genetics , bacteria , virulence , gene , escherichia coli , anatomy , bacteriophage
The toxin-coregulated pilus (TCP) is a crucial determinant of the pathogenicity of Vibrio cholerae ([1][1][–][2][3][3]). TCP is essential for intestinal colonization and serves as a receptor for CTX prophage ([4][4]). Whole-genome sequence analysis of a V. cholerae strain isolated from the Haitian
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