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is the causative agent of cholera, a severe diar-rheal disease that remains a socioeconomic burden in manydeveloping countries (1). As such, the species, also widely re-gardedasamodelorganismforstudiespertainingtowater-bornepathogens, has received much attention (2). Among other foci,emphasishasbeenplacedondefiningserotypesandbiotypesinanattempt to understand this rapidly evolving pathogen (3). How-ever, with the discoveries of intraspecies serogroup transfer andcontradicting biotype-related phenotypes, the focus has shiftedaway from classic diagnostic markers to genome-based compari-sonswithanemphasisonmobileelements(3,4).Tothisend,thegenome sequence of |
