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| Title |
Characterization of highly virulent multidrug resistant Vibrio cholerae isolated from a large cholera outbreak in Ghana
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| Published in |
BMC Research Notes, January 2018
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| DOI | 10.1186/s13104-017-2923-z |
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| Authors |
Patrick Kwame Feglo, Miriam Sewurah |
| Abstract |
The purpose of this study was to investigate the virulent factors of Vibrio cholerae which caused an unprecedented large cholera outbreak in Ghana in 2014 and progressed into 2015, affected 28,975 people with 243 deaths. The V. cholerae isolates were identified to be the classical V. cholerae 01 biotype El Tor, serotype Ogawa, responsible for the large cholera outbreak in Ghana. These El Tor strains bear CtxAB and Tcp virulent genes, making the strains highly virulent. The strains also bear SXT transmissible element coding their resistance to antibiotics, causing high proportions of the strains to be multidrug resistant, with resistant proportions of 95, 90 and 75% to trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole, ampicillin and ceftriaxone respectively. PFGE patterns indicated that the isolates clustered together with the same pattern and showed clusters similar to strains circulating in DR Congo, Cameroun, Ivory Coast and Togo. The strains carried virulence genes which facilitated the disease causation and spread. This is the first time these virulent genes were determined on the Ghanaian Vibrio strains. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 51 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 51 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 7 | 14% |
| Researcher | 6 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 4 | 8% |
| Student > Master | 4 | 8% |
| Lecturer | 3 | 6% |
| Other | 6 | 12% |
| Unknown | 21 | 41% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Immunology and Microbiology | 7 | 14% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 4 | 8% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4 | 8% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 6% |
| Environmental Science | 2 | 4% |
| Other | 9 | 18% |
| Unknown | 22 | 43% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 January 2018.
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#15,489,831
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#2,334
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#270,343
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#75
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