Citation: Ashrafus Safa, Jinath Sultana Jime, Farishta Shahel. Cholera toxin phage: structural and functional diversity between Vibrio cholerae biotypes[J]. AIMS Microbiology, 2020, 6(2): 144-151. doi: 10.3934/microbiol.2020009
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