Diversity of DNA sequences among Vibrio cholerae O1 and non‐O1 isolates detected by whole‐cell repetitive element sequence‐based polymerase chain reaction

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Vibrio cholerae strains isolated from patient, food and environmental sources in Taiwan and reference V. cholerae strains were examined by repetitive element sequence‐based PCR (rep‐PCR). Specimens from broth cultures were used directly in the PCR mixture with three different primers. The PCR fingerprinting profiles of toxigenic O1 isolates were not only homogeneous with primers from enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus (ERIC) sequences, but also allowed the differentiation from non‐toxigenic O1 and non‐O1 strains. Toxigenic O1 strains were further differentiated into El Tor and classical biotypes with primers designed from ERIC‐related sequences of V. cholerae. Primers from the other V. cholerae repetitive DNA sequences, VCR, separated toxigenic El Tor strains into six groups and a unique pattern was also obtained in 16 isolates from imported cases of cholera and imported seafood. The results indicated that rep‐PCR can be used to identify and differentiate different toxigenic O1, non‐toxigenic O1 and non‐O1 V. cholerae isolates.

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