Comparative Genomic Analysis of the 2016 Vibrio cholerae Outbreak in South Korea

• Main Authors: Sung-min Ha (Author), Mauricio Chalita (Author), Seung-Jo Yang (Author), Seok-Hwan Yoon (Author), Kyeunghee Cho (Author), Won Keun Seong (Author), Sahyun Hong (Author), Junyoung Kim (Author), Hyo-Sun Kwak (Author), Jongsik Chun (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2019-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

In August 2016, South Korea experienced a cholera outbreak that caused acute watery diarrhea in three patients. This outbreak was the first time in 15 years that an outbreak was not linked to an overseas source. To identify the cause and to study the epidemiological implications of this outbreak, we...