The role of Vibrio cholerae genotyping in Africa.

@article{De2013TheRO,
  title={The role of Vibrio cholerae genotyping in Africa.},
  author={Rituparna De and Jayeeta Banerjee Ghosh and Sourav Sen Gupta and Yoshifumi Takeda and Gopinath Balakrish Nair},
  journal={The Journal of infectious diseases},
  year={2013},
  volume={208 Suppl 1},
  pages={
          S32-8
        }
}
Toxigenic Vibrio cholerae, the causative agent of the disease cholera, is prevalent in the African continent from the 1970s when the seventh pandemic spread from Asia to Africa. In the past decade, cholera has caused devastating outbreaks in much of Africa, illustrated by the recent cholera epidemics in Zimbabwe and regions of central Africa. Given the extent of cholera in Africa, a robust and efficient surveillance system should be in place to prevent and control the disease in this continent… 
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