Extensive inter-strain diversity among clinical isolates of Shigella flexneri with reference to its serotype, virulence traits and plasmid incompatibility types, a study from south India over a 6-year period

Extensive inter-strain diversity among clinical isolates of Shigella flexneri with reference to its serotype, virulence traits and plasmid incompatibility types, a study from south India over a 6-year period

Abstract Background Shigella has evolved as a result of acquiring extragenetic material through horizontal gene exchange. These aid in the rapid emergence of bacterial inter-strain diversity in virulence factors and serotype variants through O-antigenic switching. Plasmid incompatibility typing of i...

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Main Authors: Ankita Das, Jharna Mandal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-06-01
Series:Gut Pathogens
Subjects:
Shigella flexneri
Virulence
O-antigen
Serotype variation
Plasmid incompatibility typing
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13099-019-0314-9

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