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Recent clonal origin of cholera in Haiti.
Emerging infectious diseases - 1 Apr 2011
Ali Afsar, Chen Yuansha, Johnson Judith A, Redden Edsel, Mayette Yfto, Rashid Mohammed H, Stine O Colin, Morris J Glenn
Abstract excerpt
Altered El Tor Vibrio cholerae O1, with classical cholera toxin B gene, was isolated from 16 patients with severe diarrhea at St. Mark's Hospital, Arbonite, Haiti, <3 weeks after onset of the current cholera epidemic. Variable-number tandem-repeat typing of 187 isolates showed minimal diversity, consistent with a point source for the epidemic.
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