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Cholera between 1991 and 1997 in Mexico was associated with infection by classical, El Tor, and El Tor variants of Vibrio cholerae.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Oct 2010
Alam Munirul, Nusrin Suraia, Islam Atiqul, Bhuiyan Nurul A, Rahim Niaz, Delgado Gabriela, Morales Rosario, Mendez Jose Luis, Navarro Armando, Gil Ana I, Watanabe Haruo, Morita Masatomo, Nair G Balakrish, Cravioto Alejandro
Abstract excerpt
Vibrio cholerae O1 biotype El Tor (ET), the cause of the current 7th pandemic, has recently been replaced in Asia and Africa by an altered ET biotype possessing cholera toxin (CTX) of the classical (CL) biotype that originally caused the first six pandemics before becoming extinct in the 1980s. Until recently, the ET prototype was the biotype circulating in Peru; a detailed understanding of the evolutionary trend...
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