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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, December 2004, p. 5854-5856, Vol. 42, No. 12
0095-1137/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.12.5854-5856.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Diverse CTX Phages among Toxigenic Vibrio cholerae O1 and O139 Strains Isolated between 1994 and 2002 in an Area Where Cholera is Endemic in Bangladesh

Suraia Nusrin,1 G. Yeahia Khan,1 N. A. Bhuiyan,1 M. Ansaruzzaman,1 M. A. Hossain,1 Ashrafus Safa,1 Rasel Khan,1 Shah M. Faruque,1 David A. Sack,1 T. Hamabata,2 Yoshifumi Takeda,3 and G. Balakrish Nair1*

International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh,1 International Medical Research Center of Japan,2 Faculty of Human Life Sciences, Jissen Women's University, Tokyo, Japan3

Received 3 May 2004/ Returned for modification 28 June 2004/ Accepted 30 August 2004

PCR surveillance of the rstR genes of CTX phages in Vibrio cholerae O1 and O139 showed no relationship between the incidence of disease and changes in the rstR but showed variations in their presence in O1 and O139 strains and the occurrence of multiple types in a few strains.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Laboratory Sciences Division, ICDDR,B Centre for Health and Population Research, Mohakhali, Dhaka-1212, Bangladesh. Phone: 880-2-9886464. Fax: 880-2-8823116. E-mail: gbnair{at}icddrb.org.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, December 2004, p. 5854-5856, Vol. 42, No. 12
0095-1137/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.12.5854-5856.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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