Link to Pubmed [PMID] – 35608654
Link to DOI – 10.3201/eid2806.212451
Emerg Infect Dis 2022 Jun; 28(6): 1241-1245
After a lull of >20 years, Algeria experienced a cholera outbreak in 2018 that included 291 suspected cases. We found that outbreak isolates were Vibrio cholerae O1 serotype Ogawa from seventh pandemic El Tor sublineage AFR14, which corresponds to a new introduction of cholera into Africa from South Asia.