title: Recent clonal origin of cholera in Haiti.
abstract: Altered El Tor Vibrio cholerae O1, with classical cholera toxin B gene, was isolated from 16 patients with severe diarrhea at St. Mark's Hospital, Arbonite, Haiti, <3 weeks after onset of the current cholera epidemic. Variable-number tandem-repeat typing of 187 isolates showed minimal diversity, consistent with a point source for the epidemic.
authors.affiliation: University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32610, USA.
authors.forename: Afsar
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ali
authors.forename: Yuansha
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Judith A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: Edsel
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Redden
authors.forename: Yfto
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Mayette
authors.forename: Mohammed H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Rashid
authors.forename: O Colin
authors.initials: OC
authors.lastname: Stine
authors.forename: J Glenn
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Morris
mesh_terms: D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques; D002771:Cholera / Q000382:microbiology*; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology; D014644:Genetic Variation; D005838:Genotype; D006205:Haiti; D006801:Humans; D058885:Multilocus Sequence Typing; D020080:Tandem Repeat Sequences / Q000235:genetics; D041241:Vibrio cholerae O1 / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics*; D014764:Viral Proteins / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D014764:Viral Proteins