Bhaswati Sarkar

Association of Cytolethal Distending Toxin Locus cdtB with Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Isolated from Patients with Acute Diarrhea in Calcutta, India

Pandey, Mritunjay, Khan, Asis, Das, Suresh C., Sarkar, Bhaswati, Kahali, Soumen, Chakraborty, Subhra, ...

Among Escherichia coli strains isolated from stool specimens from patients with acute diarrhea, 1.4% were found to harbor cdtB by use of enrichment cytolethal distending toxin (CDT) PCR. These...

Clonal Multidrug-Resistant Shigella dysenteriae Type 1 Strains Associated with Epidemic and Sporadic Dysenteries in Eastern India

Pazhani, Gururaja Perumal, Sarkar, Bhaswati, Ramamurthy, Thandavarayan, Bhattacharya, S. K., Takeda, Yoshifumi, Niyogi, S. K.

Multidrug-resistant strains of Shigella dysenteriae type 1 were implicated in three outbreaks and sporadic cases of dysentery in eastern India in 2002 and 2003. After a hiatus of 14 years, this...

Virulence Characteristics and Molecular Epidemiology of Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli Isolates from Hospitalized Diarrheal Patients in Kolkata, India

Kahali, Soumen, Sarkar, Bhaswati, Rajendran, K., Khanam, Jasmina, Yamasaki, Shinji, Nandy, Ranjan K., ...

Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) is an important diarrheal enteropathogen defined by aggregative adherence to cultured epithelial cells. We have detected EAEC from 121 (6.6%) of 1,826...

Association of Cytolethal Distending Toxin Locus cdtB with Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Isolated from Patients with Acute Diarrhea in Calcutta, India

Pandey, Mritunjay, Khan, Asis, Das, Suresh C., Sarkar, Bhaswati, Kahali, Soumen, Chakraborty, Subhra, ...

Among Escherichia coli strains isolated from stool specimens from patients with acute diarrhea, 1.4% were found to harbor cdtB by use of enrichment cytolethal distending toxin (CDT) PCR. These...

Clonal Multidrug-Resistant Shigella dysenteriae Type 1 Strains Associated with Epidemic and Sporadic Dysenteries in Eastern India

Pazhani, Gururaja Perumal, Sarkar, Bhaswati, Ramamurthy, Thandavarayan, Bhattacharya, S. K., Takeda, Yoshifumi, Niyogi, S. K.

Multidrug-resistant strains of Shigella dysenteriae type 1 were implicated in three outbreaks and sporadic cases of dysentery in eastern India in 2002 and 2003. After a hiatus of 14 years, this...

Virulence Characteristics and Molecular Epidemiology of Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli Isolates from Hospitalized Diarrheal Patients in Kolkata, India

Kahali, Soumen, Sarkar, Bhaswati, Rajendran, K., Khanam, Jasmina, Yamasaki, Shinji, Nandy, Ranjan K., ...

Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) is an important diarrheal enteropathogen defined by aggregative adherence to cultured epithelial cells. We have detected EAEC from 121 (6.6%) of 1,826...