Molecular Epidemiology and Antibiotic Susceptibility of Vibrio cholerae Associated with a Large Cholera Outbreak in Ghana in 2014.

• Main Authors: Daniel Eibach (Author), Silvia Herrera-León (Author), Horacio Gil (Author), Benedikt Hogan (Author), Lutz Ehlkes (Author), Michael Adjabeng (Author), Benno Kreuels (Author), Michael Nagel (Author), David Opare (Author), Julius N Fobil (Author), Jürgen May (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-05-01T00:00:00Z.
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BACKGROUND:Ghana is affected by regular cholera epidemics and an annual average of 3,066 cases since 2000. In 2014, Ghana experienced one of its largest cholera outbreaks within a decade with more than 20,000 notified infections. In order to attribute this rise in cases to a newly emerging strain or...