Charting the course of the current cholera pandemic throughout Africa and Latin America
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Researchers analyzed genomic data to identify the source of the seventh cholera pandemic, linking it to human-related transmission factors. The study found that the pandemic strain was introduced into Africa at least 11 times since 1970, replacing drug-susceptible populations with multidrug-resistant bacterial sublineages.
Coverage from 3 institutions
- Charting the course of the current cholera pandemic throughout Africa and Latin America American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) · Nov 9, 2017 · first to report
- Risk of cholera epidemics estimated with new rule-book Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute · Nov 9, 2017
- Cholera: The link between the world's major outbreaks leads to better control strategies Institut Pasteur · Nov 13, 2017