Environmental and Clinical Strains of Vibrio cholerae Non-O1, Non-O139 From Germany Possess Similar Virulence Gene Profiles

Environmental and Clinical Strains of Vibrio cholerae Non-O1, Non-O139 From Germany Possess Similar Virulence Gene Profiles

Vibrio cholerae is a natural inhabitant of aquatic ecosystems globally. Strains of the serogroups O1 and O139 cause the epidemic diarrheal disease cholera. In Northern European waters, V. cholerae bacteria belonging to other serogroups (designated non-O1, non-O139) are present, of which some strains...

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Main Authors: Keike Schwartz, Jens Andre Hammerl, Cornelia Göllner, Eckhard Strauch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
Vibrio cholerae
North Sea
Baltic Sea
multilocus sequence typing
whole genome sequencing
virulence-associated factors
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2019.00733/full

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