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Molecular epidemiology and origin of cholera reemergence in Italy and Albania in the 1990s.
Research in microbiology - 1 Jan 2000
Pazzani Carlo, Scrascia Maria, Dionisi Anna Maria, Maimone Francesco, Luzzi Ida
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In 1994 a cholera epidemic occurred in Italy and Albania after more than a decade of case absence. To investigate genotypic characteristics and the origin of the epidemic strains, 110 Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor isolates from Italy and Albania were studied by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA anal...
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