TY - JOUR AU - Ali, Afsar AU - Chen, Yuansha AU - Johnson, Judith A. AU - Redden, Edsel AU - Mayette, Yfto AU - Rashid, Mohammed H. AU - Stine, O. Colin AU - Morris, J. Glenn T1 - Recent Clonal Origin of Cholera in Haiti T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2011 VL - 17 IS - 4 SP - 699 SN - 1080-6059 AB - 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. KW - Cholera KW - Haiti KW - Vibrio cholerae KW - bacteria KW - variable-number tandem-repeat KW - molecular epidemiology KW - clonal origin KW - expedited KW - dispatch DO - 10.3201/eid1704.101973 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/17/4/10-1973_article ER - End of Reference