Volume 6, Number 2—April 2000
Research
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*
Table 3
Fragment sizes of restriction enzyme-digested genomic DNA of Vibrio cholerae O139 strains, isolated by ctxA probe, Calcutta, 1992-1998
| Fragment (kb) hybridized with the probe |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strain | Yr. isolated | Anti-biogram | HindIII | BglII | PstI |
| SG24 | 1992 | CoFzS | 23 | 8.0, | 9.3, |
| 7.0 | 5.6 | ||||
| AM258 | 1996 | ACCfFzNS | 14.0, | 23.0 | 7.0, |
| 9.2, | 5.6 | ||||
| 7.0 | |||||
| PG265 | 1998 | AFz | 18.0 | 8.0 | 5.6 |
| PG269 | 1998 | AFz | 18.0 | 8.0 | 5.6 |
| PG316 | 1998 | AFz | 18.0 | 8.0 | 5.6 |
| PG337 | 1998 | AFzNS | 14.0, | 23 | 7.0, |
| 9.2, | 5.6 | ||||
| 7.0 | |||||
| PG351 | 1998 | AFz | 16.0 | 8.0 | 5.6 |
