Emerging Infectious Diseases (May 2015)

Antimicrobial Drug Resistance of Vibrio cholerae, Democratic Republic of the Congo

  • Berthe Miwanda,
  • Sandra Moore,
  • Jean-Jacques Muyembe,
  • Georges Nguefack-Tsague,
  • Ickel Kakongo Kabangwa,
  • Daniel Yassa Ndjakani,
  • Ankur Mutreja,
  • Nicholas R. Thomson,
  • Helene Thefenne,
  • Eric Garnotel,
  • Gaston Tshapenda,
  • Denis Kandolo Kakongo,
  • Guy Kalambayi,
  • Renaud Piarroux

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2105.141233
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 21, no. 5
pp. 847 – 851

Abstract

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We analyzed 1,093 Vibrio cholerae isolates from the Democratic Republic of the Congo during 1997–2012 and found increasing antimicrobial drug resistance over time. Our study also demonstrated that the 2011–2012 epidemic was caused by an El Tor variant clonal complex with a single antimicrobial drug susceptibility profile.

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