bacterial strains are particularly useful for the production of vaccines for the treatment of intestinal diseases and the like and method of genetic engineering for the production of such vaccines

摘要

The invention relates to a fragment of DNA containing genes encoding the synthesis of the O-antigen of Vibrio cholerae serotypes Inaba or Ogawa and being at least 16 kb in length. The invention further related to a cosmid comprising a cloned DNA fragment containing genes encoding the synthesis of O-antigen of Vibrio cholerae serotypes Inaba or Ogawa and to a strain of E.coli that includes the fragment.