| cholera in the gilbert island. i. epidemiological features. | an explosive epidemic of cholera due to vibrio cholerae, biotype el tor, serotype inaba, was centered on the coral atoll of tarawa, gilbert islands. this outbreak was a unique experience in the south and central pacific region. the principal mode of spread during the peak of the outbreak was probably through contamination of the main water supply. tarawa lagoon water and shellfish were found to be contaminated with v. cholerae and ingestion of raw fish and shellfish from the lagoon also served a ... | 1979 | 464187 |
| cholera in the gilbert islands. ii. clinical and laboratory findings. | an epidemic of cholera due to vibrio cholerae biotype el tor occurred in 1977 on tarawa in the gilbert islands. no cholera epidemic had occurred there previously and special problems were encountered in both the diagnosis and clinical management. the clinical features of the 585 hospital admissions on tarawa during the first 64 days of the epidemic were recorded. eight hospital deaths occurred in this period. a marked increase in cholera among malnourished gilbertese children was noted. simplifi ... | 1979 | 464188 |
| cholera on guam, 1974: epidemiologic findings and isolation of non-toxinogenic strains. | in august 1974, six cases of cholera occurred on guam. the index case had severe diarrhea and metabolic acidosis and died from pneumonia on the ninth day of illness; the other five cases had only mild to moderate diarrhea. fish caught in agana bay and home-preserved was found to be the vehicle most likely responsible for the cases. vibrio cholerae, el tor ogawa, was isolated from two patients, the guam sewerage system, and a river emptying into agana bay. v. cholerae, el tor inaba, was isolated ... | 1977 | 848485 |
| cholera in a pacific island. | | 1987 | 3507429 |
| impact of epidemic cholera in a previously uninfected island population: evaluation of a new seroepidemiologic method. | during an investigation of a 1982 cholera outbreak in truk, an area without endemic cholera, 254 post-outbreak serum specimens were collected from ill and well inhabitants of a single island. these were compared with 57 specimens collected in truk in 1964, when heat-labile toxin-producing enterotoxigenic escherichia coli was presumably endemic but cholera did not exist. the serum was tested for vibriocidal antibody and antitoxic antibodies to cholera toxin and heat-labile toxin and the ratio of ... | 1986 | 3946388 |
| nag vibrio cholerae isolated from imported shellfish in guam. | a survey of imported shellfish available in public markets on the island of guam revealed the presence of nag vibrio cholerae contamination (10 of 38 sample lots positive) and high coliform counts (21 of 33 sample lots in excess of 2400 per 100 grams). nag v. cholerae contamination was associated with high coliform counts and origin in fresh or brackish waters rather than saltwater. further importation of fresh shellfish from other than approved sources was prohibited. | 1985 | 4023801 |
| foodborne transmission of cholera in micronesian households. | during a cholera epidemic in truk (micronesia), in a survey of 1 village, transmission of vibrio cholerae o1 in the 28 households with illness appeared to be through food contaminated in the home. households in which the index case was a foodhandler had significantly higher attack rates than households in which the index case was not a foodhandler. members of households with illness were significantly more likely to become ill if they had eaten food prepared by a foodhandler who had recently bee ... | 1984 | 6141390 |
| vibrio cholerae--truk, federated states of micronesia. | | 1982 | 6817052 |
| lysogenicity of the strains of vibrio cholerae, biotype eltor recently isolated in various countries. | | 1981 | 7278707 |
| cholera on nauru. possible non-point source transmission. | an outbreak of vibrio cholerae, serotype ogawa, biotype el tor, was experienced on the coral atoll of nauru in the central pacific. primary water-borne transmission was unlikely because the population was supplied with water from individual rainwater catchment tanks and surveillance of the tanks of patients and persons with asymptomatic infection showed no evidence of contamination with v. cholerae. a matched pair, case-control study suggested a food-borne point source for transmission also was ... | 1980 | 7464602 |
| an outbreak of vibrio cholerae o1 infections on ebeye island, republic of the marshall islands, associated with use of an adequately chlorinated water source. | in december 2000, physicians in the republic of the marshall islands reported the first known outbreak of vibrio cholerae o1 infection (biotype el tor, serotype ogawa) from this country. in a matched case-control study on ebeye island, patients with cholera (n=53) had greater odds than persons without cholera (n=104) to have drunk adequately chlorinated water collected from a us military installation on neighboring kwajalein island and transported back to ebeye (matched odds ratio [mor], 8.0; p= ... | 2004 | 14679441 |
| cholera control on guam, 2000. | during april, 2000, the island of pohnpei began experiencing an outbreak of cholera and during june and july of the same year four cases of cholera representing 3 separate introduction events were identified on guam. two of these events were associated with eating reef fish imported from pohnpei. following the imposition of a narrowly-focused ban on the importation of inshore seafood and processed food products from pohnpei, no additional local or imported cases of cholera were detected on guam. | 2002 | 14736099 |
| risk factors for cholera in pohnpei during an outbreak in 2000: lessons for pacific countries and territories. | in april 2000, a large outbreak of cholera due to vibrio cholerae serotype ogawa biotype el tor affected the island of pohnpei in the federated states of micronesia. a pacific public health surveillance network team conducted a case control study in the middle of the epidemic. the aims of the study were to identify individual and household level risk factors for cholera, and to evaluate public health interventions aimed at controlling the outbreak. a case was a person admitted to the pohnpei hos ... | 2005 | 18181490 |