The 2010 cholera outbreak in Haiti: how science solved a controversy

Fabini D Orata; Paul S Keim; Yan Boucher

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1003967

The 2010 cholera outbreak in Haiti: how science solved a controversy

PLoS Pathog. 2014 Apr 3;10(4):e1003967. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003967. eCollection 2014 Apr.

Authors

Fabini D Orata¹, Paul S Keim², Yan Boucher¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
² Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America; Pathogen Genomics Division, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America.

No abstract available

Publication types

Historical Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

Cholera / epidemiology*
Cholera / history*
Cholera / microbiology*
Disease Outbreaks / history*
Haiti
History, 21st Century
Humans
Vibrio cholerae*

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the Integrated Microbial Biodiversity Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) to FDO and YB. PSK was supported by the Northern Arizona University Cowden Endowment for Microbiology. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.