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Second-pandemic strain of Vibrio cholerae from the Philadelphia cholera outbreak of 1849.
The New England journal of medicine - 23 Jan 2014
Devault Alison M, Golding G Brian, Waglechner Nicholas, Enk Jacob M, Kuch Melanie, Tien Joseph H, Shi Mang, Fisman David N, Dhody Anna N, Forrest Stephen, Bos Kirsten I, Earn David J D, Holmes Edward C, Poinar Hendrik N
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In the 19th century, there were several major cholera pandemics in the Indian subcontinent, Europe, and North America. The causes of these outbreaks and the genomic strain identities remain a mystery. We used targeted high-throughput sequencing to reconstruct the Vibrio cholerae genome from the p...
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