Acknowledgements

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.

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)