title: [Variable nucleotide tandem repeats (VNTR analysis) in Vibrio cholerae 0139 isolated from humans and from water of surface reservoirs in Russia].
abstract: The comparative study of variable tandem repeats (VNTR analysis) in genomes of V. cholerae 0139 isolated from humans and from water samples taken from surface reservoirs was carried out. The results of the study of the allele state of 5 loci of tandem repeats in 50 strains of vibrios, carried out in the double-primer polymerase chain reaction (PCR), as well as the earlier comparison of the same isolates in the single-primer PCR, showed essential differences and the absence of clonality in the cultures of the clinical and aqueous origin. The suggestion was made that vibrios with individual VNTR genotypes and having no genes ctx and tcpA, isolated from water samples, were epidemic unimportant representatives of the autochthonous microflora of water reservoirs.
authors.affiliation: Research Institute for Plague Control, Rostov-on-Don, Russia.
authors.forename: B N
authors.initials: BN
authors.lastname: Mishan'kin
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Vodop'ianov
authors.forename: Iu M
authors.initials: IuM
authors.lastname: lomov
authors.forename: S O
authors.initials: SO
authors.lastname: Vodop'ianov
authors.forename: I Iu
authors.initials: IIu
authors.lastname: Suchkov
authors.forename: E K
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Goncharov
authors.forename: O V
authors.initials: OV
authors.lastname: Duvanova
authors.forename: M V
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Shishiianu
mesh_terms: D000483:Alleles; D002771:Cholera / Q000453:epidemiology; D002772:Cholera Toxin / Q000235:genetics; D036781:Fimbriae Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D005618:Fresh Water / Q000382:microbiology; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012426:Russia / Q000453:epidemiology; D020080:Tandem Repeat Sequences; D041242:Vibrio cholerae O139 / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D014871:Water Microbiology
chemical_list: C085807:TcpA protein, Vibrio cholerae; D036781:Fimbriae Proteins; D002772:Cholera Toxin