Vibrio cholerae El Tor strains linked to global cholera are homogeneous by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis
Fatema‐Tuz Johura, Sahitya Ranjan Biswas, Shah Manzur Rashed, Mohammad Tarequl Islam, Saiful Islam, Marzia Sultana, Anwar Huq, Nicholas Robert Thomson, Rita R. Colwell, Haruo Watanabe, Munirul Alam
The paper uses PFGE to analyze V. cholerae El Tor strains from Bangladesh and other countries, finding most pandemic strains belong to a major clade with distinct geographic lineages.
bioRxiv · Nov 22, 2021 · PreprintMolecular Biology