Evolution of seventh cholera pandemic and origin of 1991 epidemic, Latin America

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1130-1132

  Lam, Connie ^a   Octavia, Sophie ^a   Reeves, Peter ^b   Wang, Lei ^c   Lan, Ruiting ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHOLERA; EPIDEMIC; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANDEMIC; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; GENETICS; HUMAN; TIME;

CHOLERA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; LATIN AMERICA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; TIME FACTORS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 77954451691     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1607.100131     Document Type: Article

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