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SUBMITTER: Garrine M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5489214 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Garrine Marcelino M Mandomando Inácio I Vubil Delfino D Nhampossa Tacilta T Acacio Sozinho S Li Shan S Paulson Joseph N JN Almeida Mathieu M Domman Daryl D Thomson Nicholas R NR Alonso Pedro P Stine Oscar Colin OC
PLoS neglected tropical diseases 20170616 6
Although cholera is a major public health concern in Mozambique, its transmission patterns remain unknown. We surveyed the genetic relatedness of 75 Vibrio cholerae isolates from patients at Manhiça District Hospital between 2002-2012 and 3 isolates from river using multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis (MLVA) and whole genome sequencing (WGS). MLVA revealed 22 genotypes in two clonal complexes and four unrelated genotypes. WGS revealed i) the presence of recombination, ii) 67 isolat ...[more]