Evidence for several waves of global transmission in the seventh cholera pandemic

Ankur Mutreja, Dong Wook Kim, Nicholas R. Thomson, Thomas R. Connor, Je Hee Lee, Samuel Kariuki, Nicholas J. Croucher, Seon Young Choi, Simon R. Harris, Michael Lebens, Swapan Kumar Niyogi, Eun Jin Kim, T. Ramamurthy, Jongsik Chun, James L. N. Wood, John D. Clemens, Cecil Czerkinsky, G. Balakrish Nair, Jan Holmgren, Julian Parkhill () and Gordon Dougan
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Ankur Mutreja: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK
Dong Wook Kim: International Vaccine Institute, SNU Research Park, Bongchun 7 dong, Kwanak, Seoul 151-919, Korea
Nicholas R. Thomson: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK
Thomas R. Connor: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK
Je Hee Lee: International Vaccine Institute, SNU Research Park, Bongchun 7 dong, Kwanak, Seoul 151-919, Korea
Samuel Kariuki: Centre for Microbiology Research, KEMRI at Kenyatta Hosp Compound, Off Ngong RoadPO Box 43640-00100, Kenya
Nicholas J. Croucher: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK
Seon Young Choi: International Vaccine Institute, SNU Research Park, Bongchun 7 dong, Kwanak, Seoul 151-919, Korea
Simon R. Harris: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK
Michael Lebens: The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Box 435, 40530 Göteborg, Sweden
Swapan Kumar Niyogi: National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, P-33, CIT Scheme XM, Beliaghata, Kolkata 700 010, India
Eun Jin Kim: International Vaccine Institute, SNU Research Park, Bongchun 7 dong, Kwanak, Seoul 151-919, Korea
T. Ramamurthy: National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, P-33, CIT Scheme XM, Beliaghata, Kolkata 700 010, India
Jongsik Chun: Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 151-742, Korea
James L. N. Wood: University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ES, UK
John D. Clemens: International Vaccine Institute, SNU Research Park, Bongchun 7 dong, Kwanak, Seoul 151-919, Korea
Cecil Czerkinsky: International Vaccine Institute, SNU Research Park, Bongchun 7 dong, Kwanak, Seoul 151-919, Korea
G. Balakrish Nair: National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, P-33, CIT Scheme XM, Beliaghata, Kolkata 700 010, India
Jan Holmgren: The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Box 435, 40530 Göteborg, Sweden
Julian Parkhill: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK
Gordon Dougan: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK

Nature, 2011, vol. 477, issue 7365, 462-465

Abstract: Source of current cholera epidemic Cholera has affected human populations for centuries, and the agent responsible, Vibrio cholerae, continues to infect millions each year. Using whole genome phylogeny, it is now shown that the current seventh epidemic originated in the Bay of Bengal in the 1950s and has spread through the world in three independent waves.

Date: 2011
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