Comparative Characterization of Vibrio cholerae O1 from Five Sub-Saharan African Countries Using Various Phenotypic and Genotypic Techniques

• Anthony M. Smith ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anthony M. Smith, Berthe-Marie Njanpop-Lafourcade, Martin A. Mengel, Bradford D. Gessner, Delphine Sauvageot, Karen. H. Keddy

  * E-mail: anthonys@nicd.ac.za

  Affiliations Centre for Enteric Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Division in the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Johannesburg, South Africa, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Berthe-Marie Njanpop-Lafourcade ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anthony M. Smith, Berthe-Marie Njanpop-Lafourcade, Martin A. Mengel, Bradford D. Gessner, Delphine Sauvageot, Karen. H. Keddy

  Affiliation Agence de Médecine Préventive (AMP), Paris, France

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• Martin A. Mengel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anthony M. Smith, Berthe-Marie Njanpop-Lafourcade, Martin A. Mengel, Bradford D. Gessner, Delphine Sauvageot, Karen. H. Keddy

  Affiliation Agence de Médecine Préventive (AMP), Paris, France

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• Bradford D. Gessner ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anthony M. Smith, Berthe-Marie Njanpop-Lafourcade, Martin A. Mengel, Bradford D. Gessner, Delphine Sauvageot, Karen. H. Keddy

  Affiliation Agence de Médecine Préventive (AMP), Paris, France

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• Delphine Sauvageot ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anthony M. Smith, Berthe-Marie Njanpop-Lafourcade, Martin A. Mengel, Bradford D. Gessner, Delphine Sauvageot, Karen. H. Keddy

  Affiliations Agence de Médecine Préventive (AMP), Paris, France, Institut National d’Hygiène, Lomé, Togo

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• Bawimodom Bidjada ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Institut National d’Hygiène, Lomé, Togo

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• Berthe N. Miwanda ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

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• Diallo M. Saliou ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Institut National de Santé Publique, Conakry, Guinea

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• Adèle Kacou N’Douba ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur de Côte d’Ivoire, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

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• José P. Langa ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation National Institute of Health, Maputo, Mozambique

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• Husna Ismail ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Centre for Enteric Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Division in the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Johannesburg, South Africa, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Nomsa Tau ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Centre for Enteric Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Division in the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Johannesburg, South Africa, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Arvinda Sooka ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Centre for Enteric Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Division in the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Karen. H. Keddy

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anthony M. Smith, Berthe-Marie Njanpop-Lafourcade, Martin A. Mengel, Bradford D. Gessner, Delphine Sauvageot, Karen. H. Keddy

  Affiliations Centre for Enteric Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Division in the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Johannesburg, South Africa, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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