Retrospective Analysis of Serotype Switching of Vibrio cholerae O1 in a Cholera Endemic Region Shows It Is a Non-random Process

• Stefan L. Karlsson,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

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• Nicholas Thomson,

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

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• Ankur Mutreja,

  Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Thomas Connor,

  Affiliation Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

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• Dipika Sur,

  Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India

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• Mohammad Ali,

  Affiliation Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Maryland, Baltimore, United States of America

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• John Clemens,

  Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Dhaka Bangladesh

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• Gordon Dougan,

  Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Jan Holmgren,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

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• Michael Lebens

  * E-mail: michael.lebens@microbio.gu.se

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

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