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. 2011 Apr;17(4):699-701.
doi: 10.3201/eid1704.101973.

Recent clonal origin of cholera in Haiti

Afsar Ali  1 , Yuansha Chen, Judith A Johnson, Edsel Redden, Yfto Mayette, Mohammed H Rashid, O Colin Stine, J Glenn Morris Jr
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Recent clonal origin of cholera in Haiti

Afsar Ali et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2011 Apr.

Abstract

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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Relationship of Vibrio cholerae variable-number tandem-repeat sequence types from Haiti, 2010. Numbers represent number of repeats for the 5 alleles tested (VC0147, VC0436-7, VC1650, VCA0171, and VCA0283). Boldface indicates the ancestral sequence type; underline indicates alleles that have changed.
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