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Molecular epidemiology of Vibrio cholerae associated with flood in Brahamputra River valley, Assam, India.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Jun 2016
Bhuyan Soubhagya K, Vairale Mohan G, Arya Neha, Yadav Priti, Veer Vijay, Singh Lokendra, Yadava Pramod K, Kumar Pramod
Abstract excerpt
Cholera is often caused when drinking water is contaminated through environmental sources. In recent years, the drastic cholera epidemics in Odisha (2007) and Haiti (2010) were associated with natural disasters (flood and Earthquake). Almost every year the state of Assam India witnesses flood in Brahamputra River valley during reversal of wind system (monsoon). This is often followed by outbreak of diarrheal...
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