Emerging Infectious Diseases (Mar 2013)

Vibrio cholerae Non-O1, Non-O139 Serogroups and Cholera-like Diarrhea, Kolkata, India

  • Devarati Dutta,
  • Goutam Chowdhury,
  • Gururaja P. Pazhani,
  • Sucharita Guin,
  • Sanjucta Dutta,
  • Santanu Ghosh,
  • K. Rajendran,
  • Ranjan K. Nandy,
  • Asish K. Mukhopadhyay,
  • Mihir K. Bhattacharya,
  • Utpala Mitra,
  • Yoshifumi Takeda,
  • G. Balakrish Nair,
  • Thandavarayan Ramamurthy

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1903.121156
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 19, no. 3
pp. 464 – 467

Abstract

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We identified 281 Vibrio cholerae non-O1, non-O139 strains from patients with diarrhea in Kolkata, India. Cholera-like diarrhea was the major symptom (66.0%); some patients (20.3%) had severe dehydration. These strains lacked the ctxA gene but many had hlyA, rtxA, and rtxC genes. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis showed no genetic link among strains.

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