Recent
studies have shown that MLVA is a highly discriminating
method for the typing of environmental and clinical isolates
of V. cholerae and is able to differentiate closely
related isolates from outbreak situations [15,16]. In this
report, we applied MLVA to isolates spanning the 7th
pandemic to further determine the genetic and evolutionary
relationships within the 7th pandemic clone and
to evaluate the potential of MLVA as a long term epi