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Volume 21, Number 3—March 2015
Letter

Cholera in Yangon, Myanmar, 2012–2013

Wah Wah Aung, Kazuhisa OkadaComments to Author , Mathukorn Na-Ubol, Wirongrong Natakuathung, Toe Sandar, Nan Aye Thidar Oo, Mya Mya Aye, and Shigeyuki Hamada
Author affiliations: Ministry of Health Department of Medical Research (Lower Myanmar); Yangon, Myanmar (W.W. Aung, N.A.T Oo, M.M. Aye); Thailand-Japan Research Collaboration Center on Emerging and Re-emerging Infections, Nonthaburi, Thailand (K. Okada, M. Na-Ubol, W. Natakuathung, S. Hamada); Osaka University Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka, Japan (K. Okada, S. Hamada); University of Medicine, Yangon (T. Sandar)

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Table

Characterization of Vibrio cholerae O1 isolates from patients in Myanmar, 2012–2013*

Date of isolation Hospital Patient age, y/sex PFGE MLVA†
2012 Feb
10 TSGH 18/M Y9 10, 6, 6, 17, 11
13
 TSGH
 24/M
 Y1
 11, 7, 6, 14, 16
2012 Mar
13 TSGH 1/M Y2 10, 6, 6, 16, 17
15 TSGH 12/M Y4 10, 6, 6, 16, 17
16 TSGH 18/F Y5 10, 6, 6, 16, 17
19 NOGH 68/M Y7 11, 6, 6, 17, 17
20 NYGH 24/F Y6 11, 6, 6, 17, 17
23 NYGH 56/M Y6 11, 6, 6, 17, 17
26 TSGH 54/M Y4 10, 6, 6, 17, 18
29 NYGH 62/M Y4 10, 6, 6, 16, 16
29
 NYGH
 63/F
 Y7
 10, 6, 6, 18, 18
2012 Apr
2 TSGH 18/M Y3 11, 6, 6, 17, 16
2 NYGH 50/F Y6 11, 6, 6, 16, 17
2 NYGH 20/M Y8 10, 6, 6, 17, 11
2 NYGH 28/F Y6 11, 6, 6, 17, 17
2 NYGH 31/F Y6 11, 6, 6, 17, 17
2 NYGH 22/F Y7 11, 6, 6, 18, 17
4 NYGH 35/M Y6 10, 6, 6, 17, 17
4 TSGH 48/F Y6 11, 6, 6, 17, 17
4
 TSGH
 17/F
 Y7
 11, 6, 6, 18, 17
2012 May
2 YCH <1/F Y6 11, 6, 6, 17, 17
7 YCH 4/M Y6 11, 6, 6, 17, 18
14 YCH 2/M Y6 11, 6, 6, 17, 18
15
 YCH
 2/M
 Y6
 11, 6, 6, 17, 17
2012 Jun
5 YCH 5/F Y6 11, 6, 6, 17, 17
5 YCH 2/F Y6 11, 6, 6, 17, 18
6 YCH 2/F Y6 11, 6, 6, 17, 18
6 YCH 4/M Y6 11, 6, 6, 17, 17
14 NOGH 24/F Y6 11, 6, 6, 17, 17
28
 YCH
 1/F
 Y8
 10, 6, 6, 19, 19
2012 Jul
4 YCH 1/M Y6 11, 6, 6, 17, 18
30
 YCH
 5/F
 Y7
 11, 6, 6, 18, 17
2012 Aug
6 NOGH 56/F Y7 11, 6, 6, 17, 18
30
 YCH
 2/M
 Y6
 10, 6, 6, 17, 17
2013 Mar
20
 YCH
 3/M
 Y7
 10, 6, 6, 18, 20
2013 Apr
24 YCH 4/M Y7 10, 6, 6, 18, 19
30
 YCH
 1/F
 Y7
 10, 6, 6, 18, 19
2013 May
13 YCH <1/F Y7 10, 6, 6, 18, 19
20 YCH 4/M Y7 10, 6, 6, 18, 19
22
 YCH
 3/M
 Y7
 10, 6, 6, 18, 20
2013 Jun
4 YKCH 6/M Y7 10, 7, 6, 3, 19
6 YCH 1/M Y7 10, 7, 6, 18, 19
10 YCH 8/M Y7 10, 6, 6, 17, 19
14 YCH 12/M Y7 10, 6, 6, 18, 19
14 YCH 9/M Y7 10, 6, 6, 17, 21
14 YCH 11/M Y7 10, 6, 6, 17, 19
14 TSGH 1/F Y7 10, 6, 6, 18, 19
14 YKCH 7/F Y7 10, 6, 6, 17, 19
14 TSGH 11/M Y7 10, 6, 6, 17, 19
16 TSGH 11/M Y7 10, 6, 6, 17, 19
17 TSGH 11/F Y10 10, 6, 6, 17, 19
19 YCH 1/M Y7 10, 6, 6, 17, 19
20 YCH 7/M Y7 10, 6, 6, 17, 19
22 YCH 7/M Y7 10, 6, 6, 17, 19
24 IGH <1/F Y7 10, 6, 6, 17, 19
26 YCH 3/F Y7 10, 6, 6, 20, 19
26 YCH 1/F Y7 10, 6, 6, 19, 19
27 IGH <1/F Y7 10, 6, 6, 17, 19

*PFGE, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis; MLVA, multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis; TSGH, Thingangyun Sanpya General Hospital; NOGHl North Okkalapa General Hospital; NYGH, New Yangon General Hospital; YCH; Yangon Children Hospital; YKCH, Yankin Children Hospital; IGH, Insein General Hospital.
†Numbers of repeats in the 5 genomic variable-number tandem-repeat loci (VC0147, VC0436–7, VC1650, VC0171, and VCA0283).

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