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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, April 2006, p. 3054-3057, Vol. 72, No. 4
0099-2240/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.72.4.3054-3057.2006
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

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SXT-Related Integrating Conjugative Element in New World Vibrio cholerae

Vincent Burrus,1 Roberto Quezada-Calvillo,2 Joeli Marrero,1 and Matthew K. Waldor1*

Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, Massachusetts,1 CIEP, Facultad de Ciencias Quimicas, UASLP, San Luis Potosi, Mexico2

Received 13 January 2006/ Accepted 30 January 2006

SXT-related integrating conjugative elements (ICEs) became prevalent in Asian Vibrio cholerae populations after V. cholerae O139 emerged. Here, we describe an SXT-related ICE, ICEVchMex1, in a Mexican environmental V. cholerae isolate. Identification of ICEVchMex1 represents the first description of an SXT-related ICE in the Western Hemisphere. The significant differences between the SXT and ICEVchMex1 genomes suggest that these ICEs have evolved independently.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Jaharis 425, 136 Harrison Ave., Boston, MA 02111. Phone: (617) 636-2730. Fax: (617) 636-2723. E-mail: matthew.waldor{at}tufts.edu.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, April 2006, p. 3054-3057, Vol. 72, No. 4
0099-2240/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.72.4.3054-3057.2006
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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