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[the role of interhuman contacts in the transmission of cholera, epidemics of 1832 and 1854].by mapping the evidence of excess mortality month by month for cholera epidemics of 1832 and 1854, which were the most deadly and most typical of their kind in france, the authors are able to provide a kinetic description of the propagation of the asian disease throughout the whole of france. traditionally it has been assumed that hydric anademia explains, for the most part, the paths taken by the disease and its varying intensity, but the importance of direct interhuman contamination is demonst ...1978369727
cholera-like illness due to aeromonas sobria.a thai woman from bangkok was admitted to a hospital in paris for a cholera-like illness. a culture of her "rice-water" diarrhea was negative for vibrio cholerae and enterotoxigenic escherichia coli but was positive for aeromonas sobria. this strain produced enterotoxin, cytolysin, proteolysin, hemolysin, and a cell-rounding factor. acute -and convalescent-phase sera showed an increase in neutralizing antibodies to enterotoxin, cytolysin, and hemolysin. the enterotoxin, which was labile at 100 c ...19827054327
[cholera in a paris resident with no history of travel. a case report].cases of imported cholera are frequently observed, but cholera almost never occurs in subjects who have never travelled to an endemic area. in the last 30 years, 4 cases have been reported. we report an indigenous case diagnosed in paris in september 1996.19989768010
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