JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY, v. 47, No. 5, Page. 1568-1571
Abstract
Vibrio cholerae O1 isolates collected during cholera outbreaks occurring from late 2007 to early 2008 in northern Vietnam were revealed to represent an altered strain containing the RS1 element followed by a CTX prophage harboring El Tor type rstR and classical ctxB on the large chromosome.