2010•Journal of Clinical MicrobiologyOpen access

Cholera Toxin Production by the El Tor Variant ofVibrio choleraeO1 Compared to Prototype El Tor and Classical Biotypes

Jayeeta Ghosh‐Banerjee, Mitsutoshi Senoh, Takuya Takahashi, Takashi Hamabata, Soumik Barman, Hemanta Koley, Asish K. Mukhopadhyay, Thandavarayan Ramamurthy, Shruti Chatterjee, Masahiro Asakura, Shinji Yamasaki, G. Balakrish Nair, Youhei Takeda

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Abstract

Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor variant strains produced much more cholera toxin than did prototype El Tor strains. The amount of cholera toxin produced by El Tor variant strains both in vitro and in vivo was more or less equivalent to that produced by classical strains.

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Key concepts: El Tor, Vibrio cholerae, Cholera toxin, Vibrionaceae, Toxin, Cholera, Microbiology, Biology