title: Vibrio cholerae non-O1, non-O139 serogroups and cholera-like diarrhea, Kolkata, India.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, India.
authors.forename: Devarati
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Dutta
authors.forename: Goutam
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Chowdhury
authors.forename: Gururaja P
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: Pazhani
authors.forename: Sucharita
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Guin
authors.forename: Sanjucta
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dutta
authors.forename: Santanu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ghosh
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rajendran
authors.forename: Ranjan K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Nandy
authors.forename: Asish K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Mukhopadhyay
authors.forename: Mihir K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Bhattacharya
authors.forename: Utpala
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Mitra
authors.forename: Yoshifumi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Takeda
authors.forename: G Balakrish
authors.initials: GB
authors.lastname: Nair
authors.forename: Thandavarayan
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ramamurthy
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002771:Cholera / Q000382:microbiology*; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000382:microbiology*; D052978:Disk Diffusion Antimicrobial Tests; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology; D005260:Female; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D008297:Male; D010802:Phylogeny; D014734:Vibrio cholerae / Q000145:classification / Q000187:drug effects / Q000235:genetics*
keywords: India; NAG; Vibrio cholerae; bacteria; cholera-like diarrhea; enteric infections; non-O1; non-O139 serogroups; nonagglutinating vibrios; pulsed-field gel electrophoresis; virulence genes