作者
Rene S Hendriksen, Lance B Price, James M Schupp, John D Gillece, Rolf S Kaas, David M Engelthaler, Valeria Bortolaia, Talima Pearson, Andrew E Waters, Bishnu Prasad Upadhyay, Sirjana Devi Shrestha, Shailaja Adhikari, Geeta Shakya, Paul S Keim, Frank M Aarestrup
发表日期
2011/9/1
期刊
MBio
卷号
2
期号
4
页码范围
10.1128/mbio. 00157-11
出版商
American Society for Microbiology
简介
Cholera continues to be an important cause of human infections, and outbreaks are often observed after natural disasters, such as the one following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Once the cholera outbreak was confirmed, rumors spread that the disease was brought to Haiti by a battalion of Nepalese soldiers serving as United Nations peacekeepers. This possible connection has never been confirmed. We used whole-genome sequence typing (WGST), pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), and antimicrobial susceptibility testing to characterize 24 recent Vibrio cholerae isolates from Nepal and evaluate the suggested epidemiological link with the Haitian outbreak. The isolates were obtained from 30 July to 1 November 2010 from five different districts in Nepal. We compared the 24 genomes to 10 previously sequenced V. cholerae isolates, including 3 from the Haitian outbreak (began July 2010). Antimicrobial …
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