Outbreak of Imported Seventh Pandemic Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor, Algeria, 2018

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Benamrouche, Nabila ; Belkader, Chafika ; Njamkepo, Elisabeth ; Zemam, Sarah Sihem ; Sadat, Soraya ; Saighi, Karima ; Boutabba, Dalila Torkia ; Mechouet, Faiza ; Benhadj-Slimani, Rym ; Zmit, Fatma-Zohra ; Rauzier, Jean ; Kias, Farid ; Zouagui, Souad ; Ruckly, Corinne ; Yousfi, Mohamed ; Zertal, Amel ; Chouikrat, Ramdane ; Quilici, Marie-Laure ; Weill, François-Xavier
• Description:
  After a lull of >20 years, Algeria experienced a cholera outbreak in 2018 that included 291 suspected cases. We found that outbreak isolates were Vibrio cholerae O1 serotype Ogawa from seventh pandemic El Tor sublineage AFR14, which corresponds to a new introduction of cholera into Africa from South Asia.
• Subjects:
  Cholera Disease Outbreaks Humans Pandemics
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 2022; 28(6):1241-1245
• Pubmed ID:
  35608654
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC9155889
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Algeria
• Volume:
  28
• Issue:
  6
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:0030a7e496d8e7ba556973044c496c0b9e631b424d6829892cae446878cc239e
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/118181/cdc_118181_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.25 MB ]