Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

Vibrio cholerae O139 in Calcutta, 1992-1998: Incidence, Antibiograms, and Genotypes

Arnab Basu*, Pallavi Garg*, Simanti Datta*, Soumen Chakraborty*, Tanuja Bhattacharya*, Asis Khan*, T. Ramamurthy*, S.K. Bhattacharya*, Shinji Yamasaki†, Yoshifumi Takeda‡, and G. Balakrish Nair*

Author affiliations: *National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Calcutta, India; †International Medical Center of Japan, Tokyo, Japan; and ‡National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

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Figure 5

Schematic diagram of CTX prophage (not to scale) as deduced from Southern blot hybridization data. Arrows and boxes correspond to the restriction sites and core regions of CTX prophage, respectively, with hatched portions in the box representing ctxAB genes. Restriction site abbreviations: A, AvaI; BI, BglI; B, BglII; H, HindIII; P, PstI.

Figure 5. Schematic diagram of CTX prophage (not to scale) as deduced from Southern blot hybridization data. Arrows and boxes correspond to the restriction sites and core regions of CTX prophage, respectively, with hatched portions in the box representing ctxAB genes. Restriction site abbreviations: A, AvaI; BI, BglI; B, BglII; H, HindIII; P, PstI.

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