Revisiting the Global Epidemiology of Cholera in Conjunction With the Genomics of Vibrio cholerae

Revisiting the Global Epidemiology of Cholera in Conjunction With the Genomics of Vibrio cholerae

Toxigenic Vibrio cholerae is responsible for 1.4 to 4.3 million cases with about 21,000–143,000 deaths per year. Dominance of O1 and O139 serogroups, classical and El tor biotypes, alterations in CTX phages and the pathogenicity Islands are some of the major features of V. cholerae isolates that are...

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Main Authors: Thandavarayan Ramamurthy, Ankur Mutreja, François-Xavier Weill, Bhabatosh Das, Amit Ghosh, Gopinath Balakrish Nair
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Public Health
Subjects:
Vibrio cholerae
seventh cholera pandemic
single nucleotide polymorphism
whole-genome sequence
CTX phage
CT-genotype
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpubh.2019.00203/full

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