Recent clonal origin of cholera in Haiti

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 699-701

  Ali, Afsar ^a   Chen, Yuansha ^a   Johnson, Judith A ^a   Redden, Edsel ^a   Mayette, Yfto ^b   Rashid, Mohammed H ^a   Colin Stine, O ^c   Glenn Morris, Jr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Saint Mark's Hospital   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHOLERA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLONAL VARIATION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE COURSE; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAITI; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRUS MUTATION;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHOLERA; FECES; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HAITI; HUMANS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; VIBRIO CHOLERAE O1; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 79953713967     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1704.101973     Document Type: Article

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