Sentences with phrase «seventh cholera»

The current, seventh cholera pandemic (marked by a new strain of the bacteria) began in Asia in 1961 and has since spread to Africa and the Americas.

The seventh cholera pandemic has heavily affected Africa, although the origin and continental spread of the disease remain undefined.

The world is in the grip of its seventh cholera pandemic, but that's not exactly news.

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The seventh pandemic of cholera, currently ongoing, started in south Asia in 1961 and hit Peru in 1991.

WGS revealed i) the presence of recombination, ii) 67 isolates descended monophyletically from a single source connected to Wave 3 of the Seventh Pandemic, and iii) four clinical isolates lacking the cholera toxin gene.

We found that both epidemics were the result of intercontinental introductions of seventh pandemic El Tor V. cholerae and that at least seven lineages local to the Americas are associated with disease that differs epidemiologically from epidemic cholera.