Publication Date:
2011-08-26
Description:
Vibrio cholerae is a globally important pathogen that is endemic in many areas of the world and causes 3-5 million reported cases of cholera every year. Historically, there have been seven acknowledged cholera pandemics; recent outbreaks in Zimbabwe and Haiti are included in the seventh and ongoing pandemic. Only isolates in serogroup O1 (consisting of two biotypes known as 'classical' and 'El Tor') and the derivative O139 can cause epidemic cholera. It is believed that the first six cholera pandemics were caused by the classical biotype, but El Tor has subsequently spread globally and replaced the classical biotype in the current pandemic. Detailed molecular epidemiological mapping of cholera has been compromised by a reliance on sub-genomic regions such as mobile elements to infer relationships, making El Tor isolates associated with the seventh pandemic seem superficially diverse. To understand the underlying phylogeny of the lineage responsible for the current pandemic, we identified high-resolution markers (single nucleotide polymorphisms; SNPs) in 154 whole-genome sequences of globally and temporally representative V. cholerae isolates. Using this phylogeny, we show here that the seventh pandemic has spread from the Bay of Bengal in at least three independent but overlapping waves with a common ancestor in the 1950s, and identify several transcontinental transmission events. Additionally, we show how the acquisition of the SXT family of antibiotic resistance elements has shaped pandemic spread, and show that this family was first acquired at least ten years before its discovery in V. cholerae.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3736323/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3736323/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Mutreja, Ankur -- Kim, Dong Wook -- Thomson, Nicholas R -- Connor, Thomas R -- Lee, Je Hee -- Kariuki, Samuel -- Croucher, Nicholas J -- Choi, Seon Young -- Harris, Simon R -- Lebens, Michael -- Niyogi, Swapan Kumar -- Kim, Eun Jin -- Ramamurthy, T -- Chun, Jongsik -- Wood, James L N -- Clemens, John D -- Czerkinsky, Cecil -- Nair, G Balakrish -- Holmgren, Jan -- Parkhill, Julian -- Dougan, Gordon -- 076962/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- 076964/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- England -- Nature. 2011 Aug 24;477(7365):462-5. doi: 10.1038/nature10392.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21866102" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Cholera/*epidemiology/microbiology/*transmission
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Genome, Bacterial/genetics
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Haiti/epidemiology
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Humans
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Likelihood Functions
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Molecular Epidemiology
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Pandemics/*statistics & numerical data
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Phylogeny
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Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide/genetics
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Vibrio cholerae/classification/*genetics/*isolation & purification
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Zimbabwe/epidemiology
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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