Vibrio cholerae Serogroup O139: Isolation from Cholera Patients and Asymptomatic Household Family Members in Bangladesh between 2013 and 2014

Fahima Chowdhury; Alison E. Mather; Yasmin Ara Begum; Muhammad Asaduzzaman; Nabilah Baby; Salma Sharmin; Rajib Biswas; Muhammad Ikhtear Uddin; Regina C. LaRocque; Jason B. Harris; Stephen B. Calderwood; Edward T. Ryan; John D. Clemens; Nicholas R. Thomson; Firdausi Qadri

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0004183

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Vibrio cholerae Serogroup O139: Isolation from Cholera Patients and Asymptomatic Household Family Members in Bangladesh between 2013 and 2014

Fahima Chowdhury,

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Alison E. Mather,

Current Address: Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Yasmin Ara Begum,

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Muhammad Asaduzzaman,

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Nabilah Baby,

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Salma Sharmin,

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Rajib Biswas,

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Muhammad Ikhtear Uddin,

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Regina C. LaRocque,

Affiliations Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Jason B. Harris,

Affiliations Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Stephen B. Calderwood,

Affiliations Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Edward T. Ryan,

Affiliations Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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John D. Clemens,

Affiliations International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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Nicholas R. Thomson,

Affiliations Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Department of Pathogen Molecular Biology, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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Firdausi Qadri

* E-mail: fqadri@icddrb.org

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Vibrio cholerae Serogroup O139: Isolation from Cholera Patients and Asymptomatic Household Family Members in Bangladesh between 2013 and 2014

Fahima Chowdhury,
Alison E. Mather,
Yasmin Ara Begum,
Muhammad Asaduzzaman,
Nabilah Baby,
Salma Sharmin,
Rajib Biswas,
Muhammad Ikhtear Uddin,
Regina C. LaRocque,
Jason B. Harris

Published: November 12, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0004183

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