Acknowledgements
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Acknowledgements: Vibriowatch is funded by the `Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation`_ and has been developed as a collaboration between the `Thomson group`_ at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the `Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance`_. 

.. _Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/

.. _Thomson group: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/group/thomson-group/

.. _Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance: https://www.pathogensurveillance.net/

We are very grateful to extremely useful advice on Vibriowatch from cholera experts:

* Dr Sol Haim and Dr Josefina Campos (INEI-ANLIS Malbran, Argentina)
* Dr Nisha Singh and Dr Neelam Taneja (PGIMER Chandigarh, India)
* Dr Afreenish Amir (National Institute of Health, Islamabad, Pakistan)
* Charlie Luchen, Harriet Ng’ombe, Dr Michelo Simuyandi, and Dr Caroline Chisenga (Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia)
* Dr Deborah Kang and Dr Yann Boucher (National University of Singapore)
* Dr Angelika Kritz-Wilson (UK Health Security Agency, UK)
* Dr Becky Stout (University of St. Andrews, UK)
* Dr Patrick Musicha (Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Programme (MLW), Malawi)
* Dr Silvia Argimon (International Pathogen Surveillance Network, WHO)
* Dr Muatsim Ahmed Mohammed Adam (National Public Health Laboratory of Sudan)
* Dr François-Xavier Weill (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France)
* Dr Justice Ohene Amofa (Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana)