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Abstract

The emergence and rapid rise to dominance of O139 in India and Bangladesh in 1992 led to the consideration that choleraphage might serve as both a selective mechanism and a means for horizontal transmission of genetic information. A filamentous phage ‘493′ from O139 strain AJ27-493 has been purified and partially characterized. The phage was inactive on classical biotype 01 but it was active on El Tor biotype strains isolated prior to 1994 when El Tor re-emerged in Bangladesh. More recent El Tor isolates were all resistant to the phage. The phage was also active on O139 strains. Unlike the filamentous ctxφ, the receptor for 493 is not TcpA. The phage genome was a 9.3 kb closed circular single-stranded molecule containing a 0.4 kb double-stranded stem supporting a 2 kb single-stranded loop. A 283 bp fragment was cloned and used as a probe in Southern hybridization, in parallel with total phage 493 DNA. These probes hybridized both chromosomally and extrachromosomally with most O139 strains, but not with O1 strains. Infection of hybridization-negative El Tor or O139 strains resulted in the presence of hybridizing loci (both plasmid and chromosomal), in the appearance of an 18 kDa protein, and in marked alterations in colonial morphology. Phage 493 is clearly distinct from other O139 choleraphages which have been described. Phage 493 DNA hybridized with an encapsulated non-O1 (O31) strain (NRT36S) which was isolated before O139 was recognized. NRT36S also produces a phage which can infect El Tor strains with low efficiency. Further studies may reveal whether bacteriophage play a role in the emergence and the territoriality of new choleragenic vibrios.

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