TY - JOUR AU - Dutta, Devarati AU - Chowdhury, Goutam AU - Pazhani, Gururaja AU - Guin, Sucharita AU - Dutta, Sanjucta AU - Ghosh, Santanu AU - Rajendran, K. AU - Nandy, Ranjan AU - Mukhopadhyay, Asish AU - Bhattacharya, Mihir AU - Mitra, Utpala AU - Takeda, Yoshifumi AU - Nair, G. Balakrish AU - Ramamurthy, Thandavarayan T1 - Vibrio cholerae Non-O1, Non-O139 Serogroups and Cholera-like Diarrhea, Kolkata, India T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2013 VL - 19 IS - 3 SP - 464 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We identified 281 Vibrio cholerae non-O1, non-O139 strains from patients with diarrhea in Kolkata, India. Cholera-like diarrhea was the major symptom (66.0%); some patients (20.3%) had severe dehydration. These strains lacked the ctxA gene but many had hlyA, rtxA, and rtxC genes. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis showed no genetic link among strains. KW - Vibrio cholera KW - bacteria KW - non-O1 KW - non-O139 serogroups KW - cholera-like diarrhea KW - virulence genes KW - pulsed-field gel electrophoresis KW - India KW - Vibrio cholerae KW - nonagglutinating vibrios KW - NAG KW - enteric infections DO - 10.3201/eid1903.121156 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/19/3/12-1156_article ER - End of Reference