Comparative Characterization of Vibrio cholerae O1 from Five Sub-Saharan African Countries Using Various Phenotypic and Genotypic Techniques

We used standardized methodologies to characterize Vibrio cholerae O1 isolates from Guinea, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Togo, Côte d’Ivoire and Mozambique. We investigated 257 human isolates collected in 2010 to 2013. DRC isolates serotyped O1 Inaba, while isolates from other countries s...

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Main Authors: Smith, Anthony M., Njanpop-Lafourcade, Berthe-Marie, Mengel, Martin A., Gessner, Bradford D., Sauvageot, Delphine, Bidjada, Bawimodom, Miwanda, Berthe N., Saliou, Diallo M., N’Douba, Adèle Kacou, Langa, José P., Ismail, Husna, Tau, Nomsa, Sooka, Arvinda, Keddy, Karen. H.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4659613/