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Population genetics of Vibrio cholerae from Nepal in 2010: evidence on the origin of the Haitian outbreak.
mBio - 1 Jan 2011
Hendriksen Rene S, Price Lance B, Schupp James M, Gillece John D, Kaas Rolf S, Engelthaler David M, Bortolaia Valeria, Pearson Talima, Waters Andrew E, Upadhyay Bishnu Prasad, Shrestha Sirjana Devi, Adhikari Shailaja, Shakya Geeta, Keim Paul S, Aarestrup Frank M
Abstract excerpt
Cholera continues to be an important cause of human infections, and outbreaks are often observed after natural disasters, such as the one following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Once the cholera outbreak was confirmed, rumors spread that the disease was brought to Haiti by a battalion of Nepalese...
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