TABLE 2.

Genetic classification of Australian and travel-associated V. cholerae strains

Country of origin	Presence of biotype-specific genotypea							ctxB genotypeb
	ctxB-Aus	ctxB-CC	ctxB-ET	rstR-ET	rstR-CC	tcpA-CC	tcpA-ET
Australia (n = 36)	+				+		+	2
India, Bahrain, and overseas (unknown) (n = 3)			+	+			+	3
Papua New Guinea and overseas (unknown) (M951823) (n = 5)		+		+	+		+	1
India (n = 1)				+			+	NA

^a+, presence; Aus, Australia; ET, El Tor; CC, classical.

^bNA, not applicable.