Genomic epidemiology of the haitian cholera outbreak: A single introduction followed by rapid, extensive, and continued spread characterized the onset of the epidemic

mBio

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Eppinger, Mark ^a   Pearson, Talima ^b   Koenig, Sara S K ^a   Pearson, Ofori ^c   Hicks, Nathan ^b,d   Agrawal, Sonia ^e   Sanjar, Fatemeh ^a   Galens, Kevin ^e   Daugherty, Sean ^e   Crabtree, Jonathan ^e   Hendriksen, Rene S ^f   Price, Lance B ^d   Upadhyay, Bishnu P ^g   Shakya, Geeta ^g   Fraser, Claire M ^e   Ravel, Jacques ^e   Keim, Paul S ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^d TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

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

^f TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^g National Public Health Laboratory   (Nepal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHOLERA; CLONAL EVOLUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HAITI; NEPAL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; TRANSMISSION;

NEGIBACTERIA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

CHOLERA; EPIDEMICS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HAITI; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; NEPAL; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE O1;

EID: 84920901628     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.01721-14     Document Type: Article

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