Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

Molecular Epidemiology of O139 Vibrio cholerae: Mutation, Lateral Gene Transfer, and Founder Flush

Pallavi Garg*†, Antonia Aydanian‡, David Smith‡, J. Glenn Morris‡, G. Balakrish Nair*†, and O. Colin Stine‡

Author affiliations: *National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Calcutta, India; †International Centre for Diarrheal Diseases Research, Dacca, Bangladesh; ‡University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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Bar graph of the number of novel alleles (y-axis) with a specific number of nucleotide differences from the ancestral allele. Two alleles with 24-bp and 113-bp differences are excluded from the graph.

Figure 1. Bar graph of the number of novel alleles (y-axis) with a specific number of nucleotide differences from the ancestral allele. Two alleles with 24-bp and 113-bp differences are excluded from the graph.

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