Cholera

 

MMWR Articles Cholera Associated with Food Transported from El Salvador - Indiana, 1994 MMWR May 26, 1995 / Vol. 44 / No. 20 Update: Vibrio cholerae O1 - Western Hemisphere, 1991-1994, and V. cholerae O139 - Asia, 1994 MMWR March 24, 1995 / Vol. 44 / No. 11 Surveillance for Cholera - Cochabamba Department, Bolivia, January-June 1992 MMWR August 27, 1993 / Vol. 42 / No. 33 Imported Cholera Associated with a Newly Described Toxigenic Vibrio cholerae O139 Strain - California, 1993 MMWR July 9, 1993 / Vol. 42 / No. 26 Epidemic Cholera - Burundi and Zimbabwe, 1992-1993 MMWR June 4, 1993 / Vol. 42 / No. 21 Update: Cholera - Western Hemisphere, 1992 MMWR February 12, 1993 / Vol. 42 / No. 5 Links CDC Safe Water System Cholera: Basic Facts for Travelers, WHO Dealing with a Cholera Emergency: Essential Information, WHO Guidelines for Cholera Control, WHO Management of Patients with Cholera, WHO Laboratory Methods for the Diagnosis of Epidemic Dysentery and Cholera Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) References Ackers M, Pagaduan R, Hart G, et al. Cholera and sliced fruit: probable secondary transmission from an asymptomatic carrier in the United States. International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1997;1:212-14. Blake PA. Epidemiology of cholera in the Americas. Gastroenterol Clin North Am 1993; 22:639-60. World Health Organization. Guidelines for cholera control. Geneva: World Health Organization, 1993. Boyce TG, Mintz ED, Greene KD, et al. Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal infections among tourists to southeast Asia: an intercontinental foodborne outbreak. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1995;172:1401-4. Mahon BE, Mintz ED, Greene KD, Wells JG, Tauxe RV. Reported cholera in the United States, 1992-1994: a reflection of global changes in cholera epidemiology. JAMA 1996;276:307-312. Mintz ED, Effler PV, Maslankowski LA, et al. A rapid public health response to a cryptic outbreak of cholera in Hawaii. American Journal of Public Health, 1994; 84:1988-1991. Mintz ED, Tauxe, RT, Levine MM. The global resurgence of cholera. In: Noah N, O’Mahoney M, eds. Communicable Disease Epidemiology and Control. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1998. Steinberg EB, Green KD, Bopp CA, Cameron DN, Wells JG, Mintz ED. Cholera in the United States, 1995-2000: trends at the end of the millennium. J Infect Dis 2001; 184: 799-802. Tauxe RV, Mintz ED, Quick, RE. Epidemic cholera in the new world: translating field epidemiology into new prevention strategies. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 1995;1:141-146. Wachsmuth IK, Blake PA, Olsvik O, eds. Vibrio cholerae and cholera: molecular to global perspectives. Washington, DC: American Society for Microbiology, 1994. World Health Organization. Guidelines for cholera control. Geneva: World Health Organization, 1993.

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