The Origin of the Haitian Cholera Outbreak Strain  

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Chin, Chen-Shan ; Sorenson, Jon ; Harris, Jason B. ; Robins, William P.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The New England Journal of Medicine (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 364 no. 01 (Jan. 2011), page 33-42.
Topik: CHOLERA; Haitian Epidemic

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Perpustakaan FK Nomor Panggil: N0K.8.2011.01 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Background Although cholera has been present in Latin America since 1991, it had not been epidemic in Haiti for at least 100 years. Recently, however, there has been a severe outbreak of cholera in Haiti. Methods We used third-generation single-molecule real-time DNA sequencing to determine the genome sequences of 2 clinical Vibrio cholerae isolates from the current outbreak in Haiti, 1 strain that caused cholera in Latin America in 1991, and 2 strains isolated in South Asia in 2002 and 2008. Using primary sequence data, we compared the genomes of these 5 strains and a set of previously obtained partial genomic sequences of 23 diverse strains of V. cholerae to assess the likely origin of the cholera outbreak in Haiti. Results Both single-nucleotide variations and the presence and structure of hypervariable chromosomal elements indicate that there is a close relationship between the Haitian isolates and variant V. cholerae El Tor O1 strains isolated in Bangladesh in 2002 and 2008. In contrast, analysis of genomic variation of the Haitian isolates reveals a more distant relationship with circulating South American isolates. Conclusions The Haitian epidemic is probably the result of the introduction, through human activity, of a V. cholerae strain from a distant geographic source.

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