El Tor Cholera in Singapore

Technical considerations of cholera vaccines and some results of cholera - El-Tor mass immunization

An outbreak of El Tor cholera in Kavre district, Nepal.

Outbreak of cholera still remains major public health problem in most of the developing countries including Nepal. A prospective study was carried out at Dhulikhel Hospital, Kathmandu University Teaching Hospital, Kavrepalanchok during 1st May 2004 to 31st October 2004. A total of 148 stool samples from patients with acute diarrhea were collected and further investigated for cholera. The study ...

technical considerations of cholera vaccines and some results of cholera - el-tor mass immunization

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Isolation of Hemagglutinative Non-el Tor Cholera Vibrios.

During 1963, El Tor cholera spread through Thailand and Burma, and finally appeared in the Chittagong area of East Pakistan in November (Yen et al., East Pakistan MIed. J. 8:22, 1964). With disease caused by the El Tor vibrio within 80 km of areas under study by this laboratory, all vibrio isolates which agglutinated in cholera antisera were screened by the chicken erythrocyte agglutination tes...

Cholera outbreaks in the El Tor biotype era and the impact of the new El Tor variants.

Vibrio cholerae O1, the causative agent of the disease cholera, has two biotypes namely the classical and El Tor. Biotype is a subspecific taxonomic classification of V. cholerae O1. Differentiation of V. cholerae strains into biotype does not alter the clinical management of cholera but is of immense public health and epidemiological importance in identifying the source and spread of infection...