The 2010 Cholera Outbreak in Haiti: How Science Solved a Controversy

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Orata, Fabini D ^a   Keim, Paul S ^b,c   Boucher, Yan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CHOLERA; EARTHQUAKE; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAITI; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; PHYLOGENY; SEWAGE DISPOSAL; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS VIRULENCE; WATER CONTAMINATION; EPIDEMIC; HISTORY; MICROBIOLOGY;

CHOLERA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HAITI; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 84901309600     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003967     Document Type: Article

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