Susceptibility to Vibrio cholerae infection in a cohort of household contacts of patients with cholera in Bangladesh.

• Main Authors: Jason B Harris (Author), Regina C LaRocque (Author), Fahima Chowdhury (Author), Ashraful I Khan (Author), Tanya Logvinenko (Author), Abu S G Faruque (Author), Edward T Ryan (Author), Firdausi Qadri (Author), Stephen B Calderwood (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Despite recent progress in understanding the molecular basis of Vibrio cholerae pathogenesis, there is relatively little knowledge of the factors that determine the variability in human susceptibility to V. cholerae infection.We performed an observational study of a cohort of household contacts of c...