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Volume 20, Number 1—January 2014
Research

Genomic Epidemiology of Vibrio cholerae O1 Associated with Floods, Pakistan, 2010

Muhammad Ali Shah1, Ankur Mutreja1, Nicholas Thomson1, Stephen Baker, Julian Parkhill, Gordon Dougan, Habib Bokhari, and Brendan W. WrenComments to Author 
Author affiliations: COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan (M.A. Shah, H. Bokhari); Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK (A. Mutreja, N. Thomson, J. Parkhill, G. Dougan); Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Ho Chi Mihn City, Vietnam (S. Baker); London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK (M.A. Shah, S. Baker, B.W. Wren)

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Figure 1

Cholera during the floods, Pakistan, 2010. A) North-oriented map of Pakistan indicating the 8 locations of Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor isolation (shown by individual circles; red outer shading indicates the 5 locations that had flooding during the study period). White arrows indicate the hypothesized directions of spread of the various subclades of V. cholerae O1 El Tor. B) Cumulative root-to-tip distances of subclade 2 and subclade 1 V. cholerae O1 El Tor isolates. Each colored circle corresponds

Figure 1. . Cholera during the floods, Pakistan, 2010. A) North-oriented map of Pakistan indicating the 8 locations of Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor isolation (shown by individual circles; red outer shading indicates the 5 locations that had flooding during the study period). White arrows indicate the hypothesized directions of spread of the various subclades of V. cholerae O1 El Tor. B) Cumulative root-to-tip distances of subclade 2 and subclade 1 V. cholerae O1 El Tor isolates. Each colored circle corresponds with an individual V. cholerae O1 El Tor isolate; colors correspond with the locations shown in panel A. Shading corresponds with the month of V. cholerae O1 El Tor isolation: light gray, August; medium gray, September; dark gray, October.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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