| cholera associated with international travel, 1992. | approximately one case of cholera per week is being reported in the united states. most of these cases have been acquired during international travel and involve persons who return to their homelands to visit family or foreign nationals visiting relatives in the united states. this report summarizes case reports from four states during 1992. | 1992 | 1513302 |
| from the centers for disease control. cholera--international travel, 1992. | | 1992 | 1527866 |
| cholera--new york, 1991. | through june 26, 1991, cholera has been reported from seven countries in the western hemisphere: brazil, chile, colombia, ecuador, mexico, peru, and the united states. in the united states, a total of 14 confirmed cases of epidemic-associated cholera have been reported among persons in florida (one) (1), georgia (one) (2), new jersey (eight) (1), and new york (four). this report summarizes information regarding the four cases reported in new york and describes a new laboratory procedure used to ... | 1991 | 2072887 |
| fatalities associated with vibrio parahaemolyticus and vibrio cholerae non-o1 infections in florida (1981 to 1988). | vibrio infections constitute a continuing source of morbidity and mortality in florida. seven fatal infections caused by vibrio parahaemolyticus or v cholerae non-o1 were reported in florida between 1981 and 1988. review of those seven medical records and vibrio case investigation forms showed that although all patients died of sepsis, gastrointestinal signs and symptoms characterized the early illness in four patients, whereas the other three initially had painful swelling and/or lesions of the ... | 1990 | 2343327 |
| cholera in louisiana. widening spectrum of seafood vehicles. | the largest cholera outbreak in the united states in over a century occurred in louisiana from august through october 1986. eighteen persons in 12 family clusters had stool culture or serologic evidence of infection with toxigenic vibrio cholerae 0-group 1. thirteen of these persons had severe diarrhea, and 4 required intensive care unit treatment. although all 18 survived, 1 96-year-old woman with suspected cholera died shortly after hospital admission. a case-control study showed that case-pat ... | 1989 | 2774784 |
| molecular epidemiology of non-o1 vibrio cholerae and vibrio mimicus in the u.s. gulf coast region. | ten toxigenic vibrio cholerae non-o1 and v. mimicus strains isolated from clinical and environmental sources in the u.s. gulf coast region were examined for genetic relatedness. restriction digest patterns of chromosomal dna and southern blot analysis with a cholera toxin gene probe revealed that the strains exhibited greater genetic divergence than the highly conserved v. cholerae o1 strains isolated from clinical and sewage samples in this region. | 1986 | 3007571 |
| toxigenic vibrio cholerae 01 infections--louisiana and florida. | | 1986 | 3092018 |
| cholera after the consumption of raw oysters. a case report. | in august 1986, a 76-year-old woman in miami, florida, developed profuse watery diarrhea and abdominal cramps. two and four days before the onset of her illness, she had eaten six raw oysters at each of two restaurants in miami. a stool specimen yielded toxigenic vibrio cholerae o1 biotype el tor, serotype inaba. the results of toxin gene probing of the organism recovered from the patient differed significantly from those of other v. cholerae o1 isolates from the gulf coast and elsewhere in the ... | 1987 | 3688678 |
| isolation of nontoxigenic vibrio cholerae o group 1 from a patient with severe gastrointestinal disease. | a nontoxigenic strain of vibrio cholerae o group 1 was isolated in florida from the stool of a patient with severe diarrhea. the strain had the same hemolytic and unique phage-sensitivity pattern as all toxigenic isolates from recent cases of cholera in texas and louisiana. identical strains were transiently isolated from sewerage systems in two other florida communities, suggesting that multiple human infections had occurred. this is the first indication that v. cholerae o1 strains which do not ... | 1984 | 6199370 |
| molecular epidemiological studies of united states gulf coast vibrio cholerae strains: integration site of mutator vibriophage vca-3. | environmental and clinical vibrio cholerae o-1 strains isolated from the u.s. gulf coast region were found to be lysogenic for a vibriophage which we have designated vca-3. comparison of vca-3 with the previously described vibriophages vca-1 and vca-2 has shown that vca-1 and vca-3 are homoimmune, have extensive sequence homology, but have markedly different restriction endonuclease digestion patterns. vca-3 was found to randomly integrate into the v. cholerae rv79 chromosome and to introduce st ... | 1983 | 6618665 |
| isolation of vibrio cholerae serotype ogawa from a florida estuary. | vibrio cholerae serotype ogawa was recently isolated from the estuarine waters of apalachicola bay, fla., in areas that are subject to consistent fecal contamination and in areas that are remote from any apparent source of contamination. the significance of these organisms in the environment has not been determined. | 1983 | 6824323 |
| survival of vibrio cholerae and escherichia coli in estuarine waters and sediments. | in in vitro estuarine water and sediment chambers, the survival of vibrio cholerae and escherichia coli was determined by plate counting and direct counting techniques. v. cholerae strains included environmental, clinical, and serotype o1 and non-o1 isolates, whereas e. coli strains included atcc 25922 and a freshly cultured human isolate. recovery of v. cholerae varied significantly with incubation temperature. growth and extended periods of survival occurred in sterile sediments, sterile water ... | 1982 | 7041820 |
| isolation of vibrio cholerae serotype o1 from the eastern oyster, crassostrea virginica. | two strains of vibrio cholerae serotype o1 inaba were isolated from eastern oysters, crassostrea virginica, collected from estuarine waters in florida during april 1980. the oyster meats and waters from which the oysters were collected had low fecal coliform counts, and the area had no prior evidence of sewage contamination. | 1981 | 7235700 |
| a case of shellfish associated cholera in south florida. | | 1981 | 7299364 |
| non-o group 1 vibrio cholerae gastroenteritis associated with eating raw oysters. | a cluster of five cases of non-o group 1 (non-o1) v. cholerae gastroenteritis occurred in one florida locality during november 1979. clinical findings included nausea, vomiting, and abdominal cramping in all affected persons; two had bloody diarrhea. all five persons gave a history of eating raw oysters within four days of onset of illness. a case-control study statistically associated the eating of raw oysters with development of illness (p = 0.0008); this finding was confirmed by a retrospecti ... | 1981 | 7304565 |
| marine bacteria cause false-positive results in the colilert-18 rapid identification test for escherichia coli in florida waters. | the colilert-18 system for enumeration of total coliforms and escherichia coli is approved by the u.s. environmental protection agency for use in drinking water analysis and is also used by various agencies and research studies for enumeration of indicator organisms in fresh and saline waters. during monitoring of pinellas county, fla., marine waters, estimates of e. coli numbers (by colilert-18) frequently exceeded fecal coliform counts (by membrane filtration) by 1 to 3 orders of magnitude. sa ... | 2002 | 11823188 |
| update on cholera --- haiti, dominican republic, and florida, 2010. | on october 21, 2010, a cholera outbreak was confirmed by the haitian national public health laboratory. by november 19, the outbreak had reached every department of the country, and by december 17, a total of 121,518 cases of cholera, resulting in 63,711 hospitalizations and 2,591 deaths, had been reported. by november 16, additional cases of cholera had been confirmed in the neighboring dominican republic and in florida. several confirmed cases in the dominican republic and all confirmed u.s. c ... | 2010 | 21178947 |
| toxin producing vibrio cholerae o75 outbreak, united states, march to april 2011. | | 2011 | 21616048 |
| vibriosis, not cholera: toxigenic vibrio cholerae non-o1, non-o139 infections in the united states, 1984-2014. | toxigenic strains of vibrio cholerae serogroups o1 and o139 have caused cholera epidemics, but other serogroups - such as o75 or o141 - can also produce cholera toxin and cause severe watery diarrhoea similar to cholera. we describe 31 years of surveillance for toxigenic non-o1, non-o139 infections in the united states and map these infections to the state where the exposure probably originated. while serogroups o75 and o141 are closely related pathogens, they differ in how and where they infect ... | 2016 | 27510301 |
| genomic and phenotypic characterization of vibrio cholerae non-o1 isolates from a us gulf coast cholera outbreak. | between november 2010, and may 2011, eleven cases of cholera, unrelated to a concurrent outbreak on the island of hispaniola, were recorded, and the causative agent, vibrio cholerae serogroup o75, was traced to oysters harvested from apalachicola bay, florida. from the 11 diagnosed cases, eight isolates of v. cholerae were isolated and their genomes were sequenced. genomic analysis demonstrated the presence of a suite of mobile elements previously shown to be involved in the disease process of c ... | 2014 | 24699521 |