TY - JOUR AU - Benamrouche, Nabila AU - Belkader, Chafika AU - Njamkepo, Elisabeth AU - Zemam, Sarah Sihem AU - Sadat, Soraya AU - Saighi, Karima AU - Boutabba, Dalila Torkia AU - Mechouet, Faiza AU - Benhadj-Slimani, Rym AU - Zmit, Fatma-Zohra AU - Rauzier, Jean AU - Kias, Farid AU - Zouagui, Souad AU - Ruckly, Corinne AU - Yousfi, Mohamed AU - Zertal, Amel AU - Chouikrat, Ramdane AU - Quilici, Marie-Laure AU - Weill, François-Xavier T1 - Outbreak of Imported Seventh Pandemic Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor, Algeria, 2018 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2022 VL - 28 IS - 6 SP - 1241 SN - 1080-6059 AB - 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. KW - cholera KW - Vibrio cholerae O1 KW - bacteria KW - antimicrobial resistance KW - enteric infections KW - genomics KW - outbreak KW - Africa KW - Algeria DO - 10.3201/eid2806.212451 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/28/6/21-2451_article ER - End of Reference