Source attribution of 2010 cholera epidemic in Haiti

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 47, 2012, Pages

  Frerichs, Ralph R ^a   Boncy, Jacques ^b   Barrais, Robert ^b   Keim, Paul S ^c,d   Piarroux, Renaud ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Ministry of Public Health and Population   (Haïti)

^c TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^f TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHOLERA; EARTHQUAKE; EPIDEMIC; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HAITI; LETTER; NEPAL; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOLDIER; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

CHOLERA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 84869855488     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1211512109     Document Type: Letter

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