Recent Vibrio cholerae O1 Epidemic Strains Are Unable To Replicate CTXΦ Prophage Genome

mSphere (Jun 2021)

Affiliations

Kaoru Ochi: Department of Frontier Bioscience, Hosei University, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan
Tamaki Mizuno: Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
Prosenjit Samanta: Division of Bacteriology, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, India
Asish K. Mukhopadhyay: Division of Bacteriology, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, India
Shin-ichi Miyoshi: Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
Daisuke Imamura: ORCiD; Department of Frontier Bioscience, Hosei University, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan

Abstract

Cholera is an acute diarrheal disease caused by pathogenic strains of V. cholerae