Role of Shrimp Chitin in the Ecology of Toxigenic Vibrio cholerae and Cholera Transmission

Seasonal plankton blooms correlate with occurrence of cholera in Bangladesh, although the mechanism of how dormant Vibrio cholerae, enduring interepidemic period in biofilms and plankton, initiates seasonal cholera is not fully understood. In this study, laboratory microcosms prepared with estuarine...

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Main Authors: Nahar, Shamsun, Sultana, Marzia, Naser, M. Niamul, Nair, Gopinath B., Watanabe, Haruo, Ohnishi, Makoto, Yamamoto, Shouji, Endtz, Hubert, Cravioto, Alejandro, Sack, R. Bradley, Hasan, Nur A., Sadique, Abdus, Huq, Anwar, Colwell, Rita R., Alam, Munirul
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Research Foundation 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3250921/