Recent Clonal Origin of Cholera in Haiti
- Afsar Ali
- Yuansha Chen
- Judith A. Johnson
- Edsel Redden
- Yfto Mayette
- Mohammed H. Rashid
- O. Colin Stine
- J. Glenn Morris
Publication date
April 2011
DOI Publisher
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Journal
Emerging Infectious DiseasesAbstract
Altered El Tor Vibrio cholerae O1, with classical cholera toxin B gene, was isolated from 16 patients with severe diarrhea at St. Mark’s Hospital, Arbonite, Haiti, <3 weeks after onset of the current cholera epidemic. Variable-number tandem-repeat typing of 187 isolates showed minimal diversity, consistent with a point source for the epidemic
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