Evidence for a clonally different origin of the two cholera epidemics of 2001-2002 and 1980-1987 in South Africa

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1644-1650

  Keddy, Karen H ^a   Nadan, Sandrama ^a   Govind, Chetna ^b   Sturm, A Willem ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHOLERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; SOUTH AFRICA; WBET GENE;

CHOLERA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; SEROTYPING; SOUTH AFRICA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE O1;

EID: 37249064270     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.47230-0     Document Type: Article

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