The cholera challenge: How should the world respond?

Jaffar A Al-Tawfiq^{1

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3}, Hitesh Chopra⁴, Kuldeep Dhama⁵, Ranjit Sah^{6

7}, Patricia Schlagenhauf⁸, Ziad A Memish^{9

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Affiliations

¹ Infectious Disease Unit, Specialty Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
² Division of Infectious Diseases, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
³ Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁴ Chitkara College of Pharmacy, Chitkara University, Punjab, India.
⁵ Division of Pathology, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI), Izatnagar, 243122, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India.
⁶ Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Institute of Medicine, Kathmandu, Nepal.
⁷ Dr. Y Patl Medical College, Hospital and Research Center, Dr. D.Y. Patil Vidyapeeth, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
⁸ WHO Collaborating Centre for Travellers' Health, Institute for Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention, University of Zürich Centre for Travel Medicine, MilMedBiol Competence Centre, University of Zürich, Switzerland.
⁹ Al-Faisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
¹⁰ King Saud Medical City, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
¹¹ Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Editorial

Jaffar A Al-Tawfiq et al. New Microbes New Infect. 2022.

. 2022 Dec 23:51:101077.

doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2022.101077. eCollection 2023 Jan.

Jaffar A Al-Tawfiq^{1

2

3}, Hitesh Chopra⁴, Kuldeep Dhama⁵, Ranjit Sah^{6

7}, Patricia Schlagenhauf⁸, Ziad A Memish^{9

10

11}

¹ Infectious Disease Unit, Specialty Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
² Division of Infectious Diseases, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
³ Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁴ Chitkara College of Pharmacy, Chitkara University, Punjab, India.
⁵ Division of Pathology, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI), Izatnagar, 243122, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India.
⁶ Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Institute of Medicine, Kathmandu, Nepal.
⁷ Dr. Y Patl Medical College, Hospital and Research Center, Dr. D.Y. Patil Vidyapeeth, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
⁸ WHO Collaborating Centre for Travellers' Health, Institute for Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention, University of Zürich Centre for Travel Medicine, MilMedBiol Competence Centre, University of Zürich, Switzerland.
⁹ Al-Faisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
¹⁰ King Saud Medical City, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
¹¹ Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.

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