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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 3

A single-nucleotide polymorphism–based maximum-likelihood phylogeny showing the position of Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor from Pakistan in wave 3 of the seventh-pandemic lineage relative to the Haiti and Nepal strains of Hendriksen et al. (23). Waves 1, 2, and 3 are labeled in blue, green, and red respectively. Scale bar indicates substitution per variable site.

Figure 3. . A single-nucleotide polymorphism–based maximum-likelihood phylogeny showing the position of Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor from Pakistan in wave 3 of the seventh-pandemic lineage relative to the Haiti and Nepal strains of Hendriksen et al. (23). Waves 1, 2, and 3 are labeled in blue, green, and red respectively. Scale bar indicates substitutions per variable site.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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