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The role of China in the global spread of the current cholera pandemic.
PLoS genetics - 1 Mar 2015
Didelot Xavier, Pang Bo, Zhou Zhemin, McCann Angela, Ni Peixiang, Li Dongfang, Achtman Mark, Kan Biao
Abstract excerpt
Epidemics and pandemics of cholera, a severe diarrheal disease, have occurred since the early 19th century and waves of epidemic disease continue today. Cholera epidemics are caused by individual, genetically monomorphic lineages of Vibrio cholerae: the ongoing seventh pandemic, which has spread globally since 1961, is associated with lineage L2 of biotype El Tor. Previous genomic studies of the epidemiology of...
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