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Pandemics
New pandemics data have been reported by S. Nusrin and co-authors
May 12th, 2009
"A collection of environmental and clinical strains of Vibrio cholerae 01 isolated from the beginning of the Latin American epidemic of cholera in 1991 to 2003 from multiple locations in Peru were characterized and compared with V cholerae 01 El Tor strains of the seventh pandemic from the rest of the world (Asia, Africa, Australia and Europe) using a multilocus virulence gene profiling strategy and DNA sequencing. Peruvian strains differed from El Tor strains from the rest of the world by the failure of PCR to amplify genes VC0512, VC0513, VC0514 and VC0515 in the Vibrio seventh pandemic island-II (VSP-II) gene cluster," investigators in Calcutta, India report. ...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-05-12)
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