Outbreak of Imported Seventh Pandemic Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor, Algeria, 2018
Nabila Benamrouche
, Chafika Belkader, Elisabeth Njamkepo, Sarah Sihem Zemam, Soraya Sadat, Karima Saighi, Dalila Torkia Boutabba, Faiza Mechouet, Rym Benhadj-Slimani, Fatma-Zohra Zmit, Jean Rauzier, Farid Kias, Souad Zouagui, Corinne Ruckly, Mohamed Yousfi, Amel Zertal, Ramdane Chouikrat, Marie-Laure Quilici, and François-Xavier Weill
Author affiliations: Institut Pasteur d’Algérie, Algiers, Algeria (N. Benamrouche, C. Belkader, S.S. Zemam, S. Sadat, D.T. Boutabba, R. Benhadj-Slimani, F. Kias); University of Algiers I, Algiers (N. Benamrouche, F. Mechouet, F.-Z. Zmit, A. Zertal); Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France (E. Njamkepo, J. Rauzier, C. Ruckly, M.-L. Quilici, F.-X. Weill); Public Hospital Establishment of Boufarik, Blida, Algeria (K. Saighi, M. Yousfi, R. Chouikrat); Specialized Hospital Establishment El Hadi Flici, Algiers (F. Mechouet, F.-Z. Zmit, A. Zertal); University Hospital of Oran and University of Oran I, Oran, Algeria (S. Zouagui)
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Figure 1. Cholera cases and seventh pandemic Vibrio cholerae O1 biotype El Tor sublineages, Algeria, 1971–2018. A) Number of cholera cases reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) by Algeria per year. For 2018, no cases were reported to WHO, but 291 suspected cases are indicated. B) Number of sequenced genomes detected from various sublineages per year of isolation. Orange circles indicate AFR1, green indicate AFR7, blue indicates AFR 8, purple AFR9, gold AFR14. Numbers in circles indicate the number of isolates.
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