Outbreak of Imported Seventh Pandemic Vibrio Cholerae O1 El Tor, Algeria, 2018

Overview

Journal Emerg Infect Dis

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2022 May 24

PMID 35608654

Authors

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

Francois-Xavier Weill

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Abstract

After a lull of >20 years, Algeria experienced a cholera outbreak in 2018 that included 291 suspected cases. We found that outbreak isolates were Vibrio cholerae O1 serotype Ogawa from seventh pandemic El Tor sublineage AFR14, which corresponds to a new introduction of cholera into Africa from South Asia.

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