Outbreak of Imported Seventh Pandemic Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor, Algeria, 2018

Nabila Benamrouche (1, 2) , Chafika Belkader (1) , Elisabeth Njamkepo (3) , Sarah Sihem Zemam (1) , Soraya Sadat (1) , Karima Saighi , Dalila Torkia Boutabba (1) , Faiza Mechouet (2) , Rym Benhadj-Slimani (1) , Fatma-Zohra Zmit (2) , Jean Rauzier (3) , Farid Kias (1) , Souad Zouagui (4) , Corinne Ruckly (3) , Mohamed Yousfi , Amel Zertal (2) , Ramdane Chouikrat , Marie-Laure Quilici (3) , François-Xavier Weill (3)

1 Institut Pasteur d'Algérie
2 Université d'Alger 1 (Benyoucef Benkhedda)
3 Institut Pasteur [Paris]
4 Université d'Oran 1 Ahmed Ben Bella [Oran]

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

Keywords: Africa; Algeria; Vibrio cholerae O1; antimicrobial resistance; bacteria; cholera; enteric infections; genomics; outbreak

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Santé publique et épidémiologie

Nabila Benamrouche, Chafika Belkader, Elisabeth Njamkepo, Sarah Sihem Zemam, Soraya Sadat, et al.. Outbreak of Imported Seventh Pandemic Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor, Algeria, 2018. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2022, 28 (6), pp.1241-1245. ⟨10.3201/eid2806.212451⟩. ⟨pasteur-03705990⟩