| vibrio cholerae o139 bengal infections among tourists to southeast asia: an intercontinental foodborne outbreak. | to determine the source and extent of an outbreak of vibrio cholerae o139 bengal infections among 630 cruise ship passengers to southeast asia, a retrospective cohort study was done. questionnaires were sent to all passengers from the united states, canada, and the united kingdom, and serum samples were requested from all passengers reporting diarrhea. a case was defined as diarrheal illness with onset between 8 and 28 february 1994 and a cholera antitoxic antibody titer > or = 800. six passenge ... | 1995 | 7594688 |
| epidemiologic study of vibrio cholerae o1 and o139 in thailand: at the advancing edge of the eighth pandemic. | vibrio cholerae o139 bengal emerged on the indian subcontinent in late 1992 and was first recognized in thailand in 1993. to characterize the epidemiology of this disease, a hospital-based case-control study was conducted in samutsakorn, a port city 30 km southwest of bangkok. between november 15, 1993, and june 3, 1994, 366 patients were confirmed to have cholera by culture, including 165 (45%) with o139 bengal, 191 (52%) with o1 ogawa, and 10 (3%) with both serogroups. during the same time per ... | 1996 | 8561160 |