The Plesiomonas shigelloides 302-73 strain (serotype O1) wb gene cluster encodes 15 proteins which are consistent with the chemical structure of the O1-antigen lypopolysaccharide (LPS) previously described for this strain. The P. shigelloides O1-antigen LPS export uses the Wzy-dependent pathway as correspond to heteropolysaccharides structures. By the isolation of two mutants lacking this O1-an...

P or Pap fimbriae of avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC) have previously been shown to be important in the pathogenesis of colibacillosis. However, no study has been done to ascertain the effects of deletion of the genes responsible for P fimbrial biogenesis on APEC's in vitro and/or in vivo characteristics. In the present study, all 11 genes of the pap gene cluster were deleted from APEC ...

The treatment regimen for diarrhea depends greatly on correct diagnosis of its etiology. Recent diarrhea outbreaks in Bangladesh showed Vibrio cholerae to be the predominant cause, although more than 40% of the suspected cases failed to show cholera etiology by conventional culture methods (CMs). In the present study, suspected cholera stools collected from every 50th patient during an acute di...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Cholera caused by either Vibrio cholerae O1 or O139 is endemic in Delhi and its peripheral areas. The present study was carried out to understand the changing epidemiology of V. cholerae in terms of prevalence of serotypes, antibiogram pattern and phage types. METHODS A total of 9858 stool samples from the admitted diarrhoea patients were used for the isolation of V. ch...

The foot-and-mouth disease virus field isolate Burgwedel/1987 subtype O1 was found to differ genetically from the antigenically related strain O1 Kaufbeuren within the region encoding the non-structural proteins. This genetic difference was indicated by the RNase mismatch cleavage method and confirmed by nucleotide sequencing. An alignment of sequences encoding proteinase 3C of the Burgwedel is...

BACKGROUND The region around Chandigarh in India has witnessed a resurgence of cholera. However, isolation of V. cholerae O1 from the environment is infrequent. Therefore, to study whether environmental nonO1-nonO139 isolates, which are native to the aquatic ecosystem, act as precursors for pathogenic O1 strains, their virulence potential and evolutionary relatedness was checked. METHODS V. c...

Four mutants strains of Aspergillus fennelliae resistant to various polyene antibiotics have been analyzed for their sterol content. The mutant strains contained Delta(7,22,24(28))-ergostatrien-3beta-o1 and Delta(7,22)-ergostadien-3beta-o1 as the major sterols, whereas the wild types contained ergosterol, indicating that the mutants contain metabolic blocks for C(5)-C(6) dehydrogenation and C(2...

Vibrio cholerae serogroup O1 has historically been thought to be the exclusive cause of epidemic cholera. O139 is a novel serogroup of V. cholerae which emerged on the Indian subcontinent in the last few months of 1992 and is the first non-O1 serogroup of V. cholerae to cause epidemic cholera. We have investigated the expression of some of the known virulence factors of classical and El Tor O1 ...