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ArticleThe Indian journal of medical research2011

An experimental study of phage mediated bactericidal selection & emergence of the El Tor Vibrio cholerae.

M Shamim Hasan Zahid, Zaved Waise, M Kamruzzaman, A N Ghosh, G Balakrish Nair, S A M Khairul Bashar, John J Mekalanos, Shah M Faruque

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M Shamim Hasan ZahidMolecular Genetics Laboratory, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Zaved Waise
M Kamruzzaman
A N Ghosh
G Balakrish Nair
S A M Khairul Bashar
John J Mekalanos
Shah M Faruque

Funding

Phages and Genomic Variation in Vibrio Cholerae EvolutionR01GM068851 · NIGMS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI MEKALANOS, JOHN JOSEPH · 2003 to 2015
$3.9M
Genetic and Ecological Factors in Transmissibility and Epidemic Cycle of CholeraR01AI070963 · NIAID · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI MEKALANOS, JOHN JOSEPH · 2007 to 2010
$1.3M
NIAID NIH HHS AI070963-01A1NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI070963NIGMS NIH HHS 2R01-GM068851-5NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM068851
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Abstract

BACKGROUND &

objectivesFactor causing the elimination of the classical biotype of Vibrio cholerae O1, and its replacement by the El Tor biotype causing the 7 th cholera pandemic are unclear. Possible ability of the El Tor strains to adapt better than the classical strains to undefined environmental forces have been largely implicated for the change. Here we describe an environmental bacteriophage designated JSF9 which might have contributed to the range of factors.

methodsCompetition assays were conducted in the infant mice model and in microcosms between representative El Tor and classical biotype strains in the absence or in the presence of JSF9 phage.

resultsThe JSF9 phage was found to kill classical strains and favour enrichment of El Tor strains, when mixtures containing strains of the two biotypes and JSF9 phage were subjected to alternate passage in infant mice and in samples of environmental water. Spontaneous derivatives of the classical biotype strains, as well as transposon mutants which developed resistance to JSF9 phage were found to be defective in colonization in the infant mouse model. INTERPRETATION &

conclusionsThese results suggest that in addition to other factors, the inherent ability of El Tor biotype strains to evade predation by JSF9 or similar phages which kill classical biotype strains, might have enhanced the emergence of El Tor strains as the predominant pandemic biotype.

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Genetic VariationAnimalsBacteriophagesHumansMicePandemicsVibrio cholerae O1

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PMCPMC3089055

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