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Emergence and evolution of Vibrio cholerae O139.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 4 Feb 2003
Faruque Shah M, Sack David A, Sack R Bradley, Colwell Rita R, Takeda Yoshifumi, Nair G Balakrish
Abstract excerpt
The emergence of Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal during 1992-1993 was associated with large epidemics of cholera in India and Bangladesh and, initially, with a total displacement of the existing V. cholerae O1 strains. However, the O1 strains reemerged in 1994 and initiated a series of disappearance and reemergence of either of the two serogroups that was associated with temporal genetic and phenotypic changes...
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