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Circulation and transmission of clones of Vibrio cholerae during cholera outbreaks.
Current topics in microbiology and immunology - 1 Jan 2014
Stine O Colin, Morris J Glenn
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Cholera is still a major public health problem. The underlying bacterial pathogen Vibrio cholerae (V. cholerae) is evolving and some of its mutations have set the stage for outbreaks. After V. cholerae acquired the mobile elements VSP I & II, the El Tor pandemic began and spread across the tropics. The replacement of the O1 serotype encoding genes with the O139 encoding genes triggered an outbreak that swept...
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