Vibrio cholerae O1 in 2 Coastal Villages, Papua New Guinea
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Ghislain Emmanuel Sopoh, Roch Christian Johnson, Séverin Yehouénou Anagonou, Yves Thierry Barogui, Ange Dodji Dossou, Jean Gabin Houézo, Delphin Mavingha Phanzu, Brice Hughes Tente, Wayne M. Meyers, and Françoise Portaels Author affi liations: Centre de Dépistage et de Traitement de l’Ulcère de Buruli d’Allada, Allada, Bénin (G.E. Sopoh, A.D. Dossou, J.G. Houezo); Programme National de Lutte Contre la Lèpre et l’Ulcère de Buruli, Cotonou, Bénin (R.C. Johnson); Laboratoire de Référence des Mycobactéries, Cotonou (S.Y. Anagonou); Centre de Dépistage et de Traitement de l’Ulcère de Buruli de Lalo, Lalo, Bénin (Y.T. Barogui); Institut Médical Evangélique, Kimpese, Bas-Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo (D.M. Phanzu); Université d’Abomey-Calavi, Bénin (B.H. Tente); Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC, USA (W.M. Meyers); and Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium (F. Portaels)
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