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- Title
Genetic Variation of Vibrio cholerae during Outbreaks, Bangladesh, 2010-2011.
- Authors
Rashed, Shah M.; Azman, Andrew S.; Alam, Munirul; Shan Li; Sack, David A.; Morris Jr., J. Glenn; Longini, Ira; Siddique, Abul Kasem; Iqbal, Anwarul; Huq, Anwar; Colwell, Rita R.; Sack, R. Bradley; Stine, O. Colin
- Abstract
Cholera remains a major public health problem. To compare the relative contribution of strains from the environment with strains isolated from patients during outbreaks, we performed multilocus variable tandem repeat analyses on samples collected during the 2010 and 2011 outbreak seasons in 2 geographically distinct areas of Bangladesh. A total of 222 environmental and clinical isolates of V. cholerae O1 were systematically collected from Chhatak and Mathbaria. In Chhatak, 75 of 79 isolates were from the same clonal complex, in which extensive differentiation was found in a temporally consistent pattern of successive mutations at single loci. A total of 59 isolates were collected from 6 persons; most isolates from 1 person differed by sequential single-locus mutations. In Mathbaria, 60 of 84 isolates represented 2 separate clonal complexes. The small number of genetic lineages in isolates from patients, compared with those from the environment, is consistent with accelerated transmission of some strains among humans during an outbreak.
- Subjects
VIBRIO cholerae; EPIDEMIC research; CHOLERA; GENETIC mutation; LOCUS (Genetics); INFECTIOUS disease transmission
- Publication
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2014, Vol 20, Issue 1, p54
- ISSN
1080-6040
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3201/eid2001.130796