Volume 26, Number 1—January 2020
Research Letter
Emergence of Vibrio cholerae O1 Sequence Type 75 in Taiwan
Yueh-Hua Tu, Bo-Han Chen, Yu-Ping Hong, Ying-Shu Liao, Yi-Syong Chen, Yen-Yi Liu, Ru-Hsiou Teng, You-Wun Wang, and Chien-Shun Chiou
Table
Distribution of cholera and sequence types of Vibrio cholerae isolates, Taiwan, 1962 and 2002–2018
| Category | 1962 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. cases | 383 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 63 |
| No. isolates |
4 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
3 |
4 |
3 |
3 |
6 |
3 |
8 |
9 |
2 |
7 |
56 |
| Sequence type | |||||||||||||||||||
| 69 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 14 | |||||||
| 75 and variants | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 40 | ||||||||
| 723 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
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