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American Society for Microbiology, Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 9(44), p. 3401-3404, 2006

DOI: 10.1128/jcm.00611-06

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Clonal Relationship among Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor Strains Causing the Largest Cholera Epidemic in Kenya in the Late 1990s

Journal article published in 2006 by Materu Sf, M. Scrascia, F. Maimone, Mohamud Ka, K. A. Mohamud, S. F. Materu, F. Grimont, Grimont Pa, P. A. D. Grimont, C. Pazzani ORCID
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ABSTRACT Eighty Vibrio cholerae O1 strains selected to represent the 1998-to-1999 history of the largest cholera epidemic in Kenya were characterized by ribotyping, antimicrobial susceptibility, and random amplified polymorphic DNA patterns. Except for 19 strains from 4 local outbreaks in North Eastern Province along the Somalia border, the other 61 strains from 25 outbreaks occurring in districts scattered around the country were all ribotype B27 and resistant to chloramphenicol, spectinomycin, streptomycin, sulfamethoxazole, and trimethoprim. The 61 strains showed similar and specific amplified DNA patterns. These findings indicate that the predominant strains that caused the Kenyan epidemic had a clonal origin and suggest that ribotype B27 strains, which first appeared in West Africa in 1994, have had a rapid spread to eastern Africa.