Cholera El Tor in Calcutta

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

Emergence of fluoroquinolone-resistant strains of Vibrio cholerae O1 biotype El Tor among hospitalized patients with cholera in Calcutta, India.

Ciprofloxacin and norfloxacin are broad-spectrum fluoroquinolones and possess excellent activity against Vibrio cholerae O1 and O139 serogroups (6). Clinical studies have shown that these drugs are effective in treatment of cholera in adults and children (2–4). For the past 11 years, we have been monitoring the incidence of antibiotic susceptibility and genotypic changes in V. cholerae isolates...

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 ...

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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...