Atypical El Tor Vibrio cholerae from the second major global seventh-pandemic cholera wave is endemic in Sabah, Malaysia.

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Cholera, caused by Vibrio cholerae, remains a significant diarrheal disease, especially in coastal regions of developing countries. In Malaysia, cholera is largely non-endemic except in Sabah, which has had recurrent outbreaks accounting for ∼75% of national cases between 2004 and 2014. To understand the origin and transmission of the disease, we sequenced the genomes of clinical isolates of V. cholerae O1...

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