| clonal relationship among vibrio cholerae o1 el tor strains causing the largest cholera epidemic in kenya in the late 1990s. | eighty vibrio cholerae o1 strains selected to represent the 1998-to-1999 history of the largest cholera epidemic in kenya were characterized by ribotyping, antimicrobial susceptibility, and random amplified polymorphic dna patterns. except for 19 strains from 4 local outbreaks in north eastern province along the somalia border, the other 61 strains from 25 outbreaks occurring in districts scattered around the country were all ribotype b27 and resistant to chloramphenicol, spectinomycin, streptom ... | 2006 | 16954285 |