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Molecular Epidemiology and Antibiotic Susceptibility of Vibrio cholerae Associated with a Large Cholera Outbreak in Ghana in 2014.
PLoS neglected tropical diseases - 1 May 2016
Eibach Daniel, Herrera-León Silvia, Gil Horacio, Hogan Benedikt, Ehlkes Lutz, Adjabeng Michael, Kreuels Benno, Nagel Michael, Opare David, Fobil Julius N, May Jürgen
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BACKGROUND: Ghana is affected by regular cholera epidemics and an annual average of 3,066 cases since 2000. In 2014, Ghana experienced one of its largest cholera outbreaks within a decade with more than 20,000 notified infections. In order to attribute this rise in cases to a newly emerging strain or to multiple simultaneous outbreaks involving multi-clonal strains, outbreak isolates were characterized, subtyped...
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