Comparative genome analysis of VSP-II and SNPs reveals heterogenic variation in contemporary strains of Vibrio cholerae O1 isolated from cholera patients in Kolkata, India

• Daisuke Imamura ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Daisuke Imamura, Masatomo Morita

  Affiliation Collaborative Research Center of Okayama University for Infectious Diseases in India, Okayama University, Kolkata, India

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• Masatomo Morita ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Daisuke Imamura, Masatomo Morita

  Affiliation Department of Bacteriology I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

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• Tsuyoshi Sekizuka,

  Affiliation Pathogen Genomics Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

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• Tamaki Mizuno,

  Affiliation Collaborative Research Center of Okayama University for Infectious Diseases in India, Okayama University, Kolkata, India

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• Taichiro Takemura,

  Affiliation Vietnam Research Station, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

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• Tetsu Yamashiro,

  Current address: Department of Bacteriology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan.

  Affiliation Vietnam Research Station, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

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• Goutam Chowdhury,

  Affiliation Division of Bacteriology, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, India

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• Gururaja P. Pazhani,

  Affiliation Division of Bacteriology, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, India

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• Asish K. Mukhopadhyay,

  Affiliation Division of Bacteriology, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, India

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• Thandavarayan Ramamurthy,

  Affiliation Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Faridabad, India

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• Shin-ichi Miyoshi,

  Affiliation Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan

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• Makoto Kuroda,

  Affiliation Pathogen Genomics Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

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• Sumio Shinoda,

  Affiliation Collaborative Research Center of Okayama University for Infectious Diseases in India, Okayama University, Kolkata, India

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• Makoto Ohnishi

  * E-mail: ohnishi7@nih.go.jp

  Affiliation Department of Bacteriology I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

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