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Origins of the current seventh cholera pandemic.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 29 Nov 2016
Hu Dalong, Liu Bin, Feng Lu, Ding Peng, Guo Xi, Wang Min, Cao Boyang, Reeves Peter R, Wang Lei
Abstract excerpt
Vibrio cholerae has caused seven cholera pandemics since 1817, imposing terror on much of the world, but bacterial strains are currently only available for the sixth and seventh pandemics. The El Tor biotype seventh pandemic began in 1961 in Indonesia, but did not originate directly from the classical biotype sixth-pandemic strain. Previous studies focused mainly on the spread of the seventh pandemic after 1970....
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