Is El Niño a long-distance corridor for waterborne disease?

Jaime Martinez-Urtaza; Joaquin Trinanes; Narjol Gonzalez-Escalona; Craig Baker-Austin

doi:10.1038/NMICROBIOL.2016.18

Is El Niño a long-distance corridor for waterborne disease?

Jaime Martinez-Urtaza
, Joaquin Trinanes
, Narjol Gonzalez-Escalona
, Craig Baker-Austin

Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas)

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Abstract

The apparent emergence of new and devastating Vibrio diseases in Latin America during significant El Niño events is striking. New microbiological, genomic and bioinformatic tools are providing us with evidence that El Niño may represent a long-distance corridor for waterborne diseases into the Americas from Asia.

Original language	English
Article number	16018
Number of pages	3
Journal	Nature Microbiology
Volume	1
Issue number	March 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/NMICROBIOL.2016.18
Publication status	Published - 1 Mar 2016

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