Increased isolation frequency of toxigenic Vibrio cholerae O1 from environmental monitoring sites in Haiti.

Since the identification of the first cholera case in 2010, the disease has spread in epidemic form throughout the island nation of Haiti; as of 2014, about 700,000 cholera cases have been reported, with over 8,000 deaths. While case numbers have declined, the more fundamental question of whether th...

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Main Authors: Meer T Alam, Thomas A Weppelmann, Ira Longini, Valery Madsen Beau De Rochars, John Glenn Morris, Afsar Ali
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4390201?pdf=render