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dc.contributor.authorDalusi, Lycy
dc.contributor.authorSaarenheimo, Jatta
dc.contributor.authorLyimo, Thomas J.
dc.contributor.authorLugomela, Charles
dc.date.accessioned2015-03-18T07:36:11Z
dc.date.available2015-03-18T07:36:11Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.citationDalusi, L., Saarenheimo, J., Lyimo, T. J., & Lugomela, C. (2015). Genetic relationship between clinical and environmental Vibrio cholerae isolates in Tanzania: A comparison using repetitive extragenic palindromic (REP) and enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus (ERIC) fingerprinting approach. <i>African journal of microbiology research</i>, <i>9</i>(7), 455-462. <a href="https://doi.org/10.5897/AJMR2014.7307" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.5897/AJMR2014.7307</a>
dc.identifier.otherCONVID_24600949
dc.identifier.otherTUTKAID_65527
dc.identifier.urihttps://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/45525
dc.description.abstractThe bacterium causing cholera, Vibrio cholerae, is a marine organism and coastal waters are important reservoirs of the organism. There are more than 200 serogroups of V. cholerae, of which serogroups O1 and O139 are known to be the causative agent of the cholera. The main virulent factor in V. cholerae is cholera toxin gene (ctx) that is found from the epidemic O1 and O139 strains, but may also be found in some strains other than O1 and O139 (non-O1 and non-O139). In this study, 48 V. cholerae strains isolated from three estuaries of Tanzania and 20 stool isolates were characterized in terms of their serogroups and possession of ctx gene and then compared using two PCR based fingerprinting methods: Enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus (ERIC) sequences and repetitive extragenic palindromic (REP) sequences. All the stool isolates and twelve of the environmental isolates belonged to serogroup O1 while the remaining 36 environmental isolates were defined as non-O1/O139. The entire stool isolates and 21 of the environmental isolates had the cholera toxin gene (ctxA). Both ERIC and REP methods gave almost unique fingerprints for each strain and confirmed high genetic heterogeneity among the different cholera strains. Higher similarity was observed in REP-PCR (70-100%) than in ERIC-PCR (62-100%), indicating different discriminative power of these methods. Environmental isolates clustered together with clinical isolates at ≥90% similarity level suggesting their great potential of producing pathogenic strains that may be the causative agents for the frequent observed cholera outbreaks particularly along the coast.
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherAcademic Journals
dc.relation.ispartofseriesAfrican journal of microbiology research
dc.subject.othervibrio cholerae
dc.subject.otherenterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus (ERIC)-PCR
dc.subject.otherrepetitive extragenic palindromic (REP)-PCR
dc.subject.otherestuaries of Tanzania
dc.titleGenetic relationship between clinical and environmental Vibrio cholerae isolates in Tanzania: A comparison using repetitive extragenic palindromic (REP) and enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus (ERIC) fingerprinting approach
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi:jyu-201503161476
dc.contributor.laitosBio- ja ympäristötieteiden laitosfi
dc.contributor.laitosDepartment of Biological and Environmental Scienceen
dc.contributor.oppiaineAkvaattiset tieteetfi
dc.contributor.oppiaineAquatic Sciencesen
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle
dc.date.updated2015-03-16T16:30:16Z
dc.type.coarhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1
dc.description.reviewstatuspeerReviewed
dc.format.pagerange455-462
dc.relation.issn1996-0808
dc.relation.numberinseries7
dc.relation.volume9
dc.type.versionpublishedVersion
dc.rights.copyright© 2015 the Authors. Published by Academic Journals. This is an Open Access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
dc.rights.accesslevelopenAccessfi
dc.rights.urlhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en_US
dc.relation.doi10.5897/AJMR2014.7307
dc.type.okmA1


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© 2015 the Authors. Published by Academic Journals. This is an Open Access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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