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Volume 9, Number 11—November 2003
Dispatch

Shigella dysenteriae Serotype 1, Kolkata, India

Shanta Dutta*Comments to Author , Dharitri Dutta*, Phalguni Dutta*, Shigeru Matsushita†, Sujit Kumar Bhattacharya*, and Shin-ichi Yoshida‡
Author affiliations: *National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, India; †Metropolitan Research Laboratory of Public Health, Tokyo, Japan; ‡Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

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Table 2

Virulence gene profiles of provisional serovars of Shigella spp. isolated from Kolkata, India

Serial no. New serovars Shigella spp. (n) Mo and
y of isolation Detection of virulence genes by PCRa
IpaH ial set sen stx1
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7. S. dysenteriae 204/96
S. boydii
E16553
S. dysenteriae
93-119
S. dysenteriae
204/96
S. dysenteriae
E-23507
S. dysenteriae
I-9809-93
S. dysenteriae
204/96 May 2000
June 2000
Oct 2000
Aug 2001
Aug 2001
Dec 2001
Mar 2002 +
+
+
+
+
+
+ +
+
+
+
+
+
+ -
-
-
-
-
-
- +
+
+
+
+
-
+ -
-
-
-
-
-
-

aPCR, polymerase chain reaction; +, positive; -, negative

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