South Asia instead of Nepal may be the origin of the Haitian cholera outbreak strains

mBio

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Pun, Sher Bahadur ^a  

^a Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital Kathmandu   (Nepal)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; EPIDEMIC; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HAITI; LETTER; NEPAL; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH ASIA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 80455132338     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00219-11     Document Type: Letter

References (4)

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