Article
<i>Vibrio cholerae</i> genomic diversity within and between patients
2017-07-28
Abstract excerpt
Cholera is a severe, waterborne diarrheal disease caused by toxin-producing strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae . Comparative genomics has revealed “waves” of cholera transmission and evolution, in which clones are successively replaced over decades and centuries. However, the extent of V. cholerae genetic diversity within an epidemic or even within an individual patient is poorly understood. Here, we chara...
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- Literature Corpus work
- d8d7b4c2-354e-5d0a-b67c-3d8b37a7c795
- DOI
- 10.1101/169292
