| a hospital outbreak of cholera in maputo, mozambique. | we describe a hospital outbreak of cholera in a children's paediatric unit. the outbreak began explosively and continued for four months with spread from person to person within the diarrhoea isolation unit. overcrowded and unhygienic conditions in this unit facilitated transmission. the organism was multiply drug-resistant, the same strain having been isolated in another outbreak in the paediatric unit seven months previously. a high case fatality rate of 30.0% was recorded in infants infected ... | 1986 | 3798545 |
| molecular identification of pathogenicity genes and eric types in vibrio cholerae o1 epidemic strains from mozambique. | the phenotypic and genotypic profiles of the v. cholerae strains causing the mozambican 1997-8 epidemic were characterized to provide a reference for comparison with other epidemic strains. a total of 75 strains of v. cholerae o1 isolated in different provinces, were analysed. strains were characterized by pcr for detecting toxin genes (ctxa, zot and ace), virulence associated genes (tcpa. nanh, hlya and torr) and eric sequences. all v. cholerae strains were serotype o1, ogawa, biotype el tor. m ... | 2001 | 11561970 |
| environmental vibrio spp., isolated in mozambique, contain a polymorphic group of integrative conjugative elements and class 1 integrons. | circulation of mobile genetic elements linked to drug resistance spread was studied in vibrio strains isolated from surface urban water (river and sea) and shellfish samples in 2002-2003 in maputo, mozambique. class 1 integrons and integrating conjugative elements (ice) were investigated by pcr and mating experiments in strains of major health interest: 10 vibrio cholerae, six vibrio parahaemolyticus, two vibrio alginolyticus and one vibrio fluvialis. resistance to at least two antibiotics (pred ... | 2008 | 18318712 |