Publications

outbreak of vibrio cholerae 01 in hong kong related to contaminated fish tank water.	an outbreak of 12 cholera cases, caused by vibrio cholerae eltor inaba, occurred in hong kong during a three week period in june-july 1994. only adults of both sexes were affected. epidemiological investigations showed linkage in all cases with consumption of seafood, including shellfish, mantis shrimps and crabs. microbiological findings demonstrated that contaminated seawater in fish tanks used for keeping alive these seafoods is the most likely vehicle of transmission. aggressive control meas ...	1995	7480605
molecular subtyping of vibrio cholerae o1 and o139 by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis in hong kong: correlation with epidemiological events from 1994 to 2002.	two hundred twenty isolates of vibrio cholerae o1 and o139 collected from 1994 to 2002 in hong kong were analyzed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (pfge). chromosomal dnas from all v. cholerae isolates in agarose plugs were digested with the restriction enzyme noti, resulting in 20 to 27 bands. sixty distinctive pfge patterns in the range of 10 to 300 kb were noted among 213 isolates typeable by pfge. by comparing the common pfge patterns obtained from four well-defined outbreaks of v. choler ...	2003	14532174