Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jun 2022)

Outbreak of Imported Seventh Pandemic Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor, Algeria, 2018

  • Nabila Benamrouche,
  • Chafika Belkader,
  • Elisabeth Njamkepo,
  • Sarah Sihem Zemam,
  • Soraya Sadat,
  • Karima Saighi,
  • Dalila Torkia Boutabba,
  • Faiza Mechouet,
  • Rym Benhadj-Slimani,
  • Fatma-Zohra Zmit,
  • Jean Rauzier,
  • Farid Kias,
  • Souad Zouagui,
  • Corinne Ruckly,
  • Mohamed Yousfi,
  • Amel Zertal,
  • Ramdane Chouikrat,
  • Marie-Laure Quilici,
  • François-Xavier Weill

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2806.212451
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 28, no. 6
pp. 1241 – 1245

Abstract

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After a lull of >20 years, Algeria experienced a cholera outbreak in 2018 that included 291 suspected cases. We found that outbreak isolates were Vibrio cholerae O1 serotype Ogawa from seventh pandemic El Tor sublineage AFR14, which corresponds to a new introduction of cholera into Africa from South Asia.

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