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SUBMITTER: Hasan NA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4290964 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hasan Nur A NA Rezayat Talayeh T Blatz Peter J PJ Choi Seon Young SY Griffitt Kimberly J KJ Rashed Shah M SM Huq Anwar A Conger Nicholas G NG Colwell Rita R RR Grimes D Jay DJ
Journal of clinical microbiology 20141022 1
An occurrence of Vibrio cholerae non-O1/O139 gastroenteritis in the U.S. Gulf Coast is reported here. Genomic analysis revealed that the isolate lacked known virulence factors associated with the clinical outcome of a V. cholerae infection but did contain putative genomic islands and other accessory virulence factors. Many of these factors are widespread among environmental strains of V. cholerae, suggesting that there might be additional virulence factors in non-O1/O139 V. cholerae yet to be de ...[more]