Molecular Epidemiology of O139 Vibrio cholerae: Mutation, Lateral Gene Transfer, and Founder Flush

Molecular Epidemiology of O139 Vibrio cholerae: Mutation, Lateral Gene Transfer, and Founder Flush

Vibrio cholerae in O-group 139 was first isolated in 1992 and by 1993 had been found throughout the Indian subcontinent. This epidemic expansion probably resulted from a single source after a lateral gene transfer (LGT) event that changed the serotype of an epidemic V. cholerae O1 El Tor strain to O...

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Main Authors: Pallavi Garg, Antonia Aydanian, David W. Smith, J. Glenn Morris, G. Balakrish Nair, O. Colin Stine
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2003-07-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
cholera
evolution
base sequence
DNA
bacterial
molecular sequence data
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/9/7/02-0760_article

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