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US Gulf-like toxigenic O1 Vibrio cholerae causing sporadic cholera outbreaks in China.
The Journal of infection - 1 May 2016
Luo Yun, Octavia Sophie, Jin Dazhi, Ye Julian, Miao Ziping, Jiang Tao, Xia Shichang, Lan Ruiting
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OBJECTIVES: Cholera is potentially a life threatening disease caused by toxigenic Vibrio cholerae. Here we report the identification and characterisation of 76 non-7th pandemic clone O1 V. cholerae isolates including 65 clinical isolates from diarrhoeal patients from 2005 to 2014 in Zhejiang Province, China. METHODS: We used multilocus sequence typing (MLST) to characterise 65 V. cholerae isolates. Pulse-Field...
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