Publications

cholera in metropolitan manila: foodborne transmission via street vendors.	reported are the results of an unmatched case-control study to determine the risk factors associated with acquisition of cholera in manila. cases were patients admitted to the san lazaro hospital between july and september 1989 and whose stools yielded vibrio cholerae o1 on culture. controls were patients admitted to the same hospital and who had no history of diarrhoea or of having taken antibiotics during the 3 days prior to admission. of the 158 cases and 158 controls who had bought food from ...	1994	7955024
two-year survey of etiologic agents of diarrheal disease at san lazaro hospital, manila, republic of the philippines.	the prevalence of bacterial pathogens and rotavirus in 2,908 patients with diarrhea who were admitted to san lazaro hospital in manila in 1983 and 1984 was determined. one or more enteric pathogens were isolated or detected in samples from 1,698 (58.4%) patients. isolation rates for the various enteropathogens were as follows: rotavirus, 30.6%; shigella spp., 11.6%; salmonella spp., 9.2%; enterotoxigenic escherichia coli (1983 only), 7.8%; vibrio cholerae biotype eltor, 3.8%; non-o1 v. cholerae, ...	1987	3038946
socio-economic and environmental factors and human health example of cholera el tor in manila.	the environmental health factors relevant to the occurrence of cholera in an urban milieu (manila) have been studied. cholera has been found to be a disease significantly more prevalent in the areas with lowest environmental condition. association have been found between the disease incidence and several socioeconomic variables: population density, water and sewer connections each per 1000 population and squatter/slum dweller density. the correlation between cholera incidence and population dens ...	1975	1163167