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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2003

Emergence and evolution of Vibrio cholerae O139.

Shah M Faruque, David A Sack, R Bradley Sack, Rita R Colwell, Yoshifumi Takeda, G Balakrish Nair

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 81 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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81citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

81 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 186 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Shah M FaruqueLaboratory Sciences Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Mohakhali, Dhaka-1212, Bangladesh.
David A Sack
R Bradley Sack
Rita R Colwell
Yoshifumi Takeda
G Balakrish Nair
University of Maryland, Baltimore · US

Funding

EPIDEMIOLOGY &ECOLOGY OF VIBRIO CHOLERAE IN BANGLADESHR01AI039129 · NIAID · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI SACK, DAVID A · 1996 to 2014
$15.2M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI039129
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The emergence of Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal during 1992-1993 was associated with large epidemics of cholera in India and Bangladesh and, initially, with a total displacement of the existing V. cholerae O1 strains. However, the O1 strains reemerged in 1994 and initiated a series of disappearance and reemergence of either of the two serogroups that was associated with temporal genetic and phenotypic changes sustained by the strains. Since the initial emergence of the O139 vibrios, new variants of the pathogen derived from multiple progenitors have been isolated and characterized. The clinical and epidemiological characteristics of these strains have been studied. Rapid genetic reassortment in O139 strains appears to be a response to the changing epidemiology of V. cholerae O1 and also a strategy for persistence in competition with strains of the O1 serogroup. The emergence of V. cholerae O139 has provided a unique opportunity to witness genetic changes in V. cholerae that may be associated with displacement of an existing serogroup by a newly emerging one and, thus, provide new insights into the epidemiology of cholera. The genetic changes and natural selection involving both environmental and host factors are likely to influence profoundly the genetics, epidemiology, and evolution of toxigenic V. cholerae, not only in the Ganges Delta region of India and Bangladesh, but also in other areas of endemic and epidemic cholera.

Indexed as

Evolution, MolecularBangladeshCholeraDrug Resistance, MicrobialGenetic VariationHumansIndiaModels, GeneticMultigene FamilyStem CellsTime FactorsVibrio cholerae

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PMID12538850
PMCPMC298768
OpenAlexW2032026748

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