| [bacteriological survey of diarrheal epidemics in the 1998 bangladesh floods]. | in 1998, the worst flood disaster in bangladesh ravaged more than half of its land and diarrheal epidemics broke out. we examined fecal specimens of diarrheal patients at rural hospitals in chandpor district located 140 km southeast of dhaka to analyze the enteric bacterial pathogens in post-flood period october. of the 76 patients stools examined, vibrio cholerae o1 biotype el tor, serotype ogawa, and vibrio cholerae o139 bengal were detected in 25 (33%) and in 14 (18%) respectively. other ente ... | 1999 | 10535267 |