Vibrio cholerae strain:M29 Genome sequencing and assembly. Vibrio cholerae strain:M29

During World War II in the summer of 1941, a cholera epidemic was brought to the territory of Russia most probably from Afghanistan where minor outbreaks had been registered continuously. This strain is characterized high-level production of cholera toxin and toxin-coregulated adhesion pili both of which are the major virulence factors. Moreover, this strain containing the structural gene hapA, as shown by the polymerase chain reaction, produced no soluble hemagglutinin/protease which enables the vibrios to get disseminated in the environment.