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Phage specific for Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal
M J Albert1, N A Bhuiyan, A Rahman
1International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Bangladesh. albert%cholera@external.ait.ac.th
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|July 1, 1996
Abstract:
From the stool of a Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal-infected patient, a phage that specifically lysed capsulated V. cholerae O139 strains only was isolated. The phage is useful for the confirmatory diagnosis of V. cholerae O139 infection and for the differentiation of variants that lack the capsule.