Widespread epidemic cholera caused by a restricted subset of Vibrio cholerae clones

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 373-379

  Moore, S ^a   Thomson, N ^b,c   Mutreja, A ^b   Piarroux, R ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cholera epidemic; Clone; El Tor; Haiti; Latin America; Peru; Seventh pandemic; Vibrio cholerae

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CHOLERA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GENOME; HAITI; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PANDEMIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; BACTERIAL GENOME; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MEXICO; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIAL DNA;

CHOLERA; DNA, BACTERIAL; EPIDEMICS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HAITI; HUMANS; MEXICO; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOUTH AMERICA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 84901623558     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1469-0691.12610     Document Type: Review

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