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Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor from southern Vietnam in 2010 was molecularly distinct from that present from 1999 to 2004.
Epidemiology and infection - 1 Apr 2016
Nguyen V H, Pham H T, Diep T T, Phan C D H, Nguyen T Q, Nguyen N T N, Ngo T C, Nguyen T V, Do Q K, Phan H C, Nguyen B M, Ehara M, Ohnishi M, Yamashiro T, Nguyen L T P, Izumiya H
Abstract excerpt
The Vibrio cholerae O1 (VCO1) El Tor biotype appeared during the seventh cholera pandemic starting in 1961, and new variants of this biotype have been identified since the early 1990s. This pandemic has affected Vietnam, and a large outbreak was reported in southern Vietnam in 2010. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analyses (MLVA) were used to screen 34 VCO1...
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