| impact of epidemic cholera in a previously uninfected island population: evaluation of a new seroepidemiologic method. | during an investigation of a 1982 cholera outbreak in truk, an area without endemic cholera, 254 post-outbreak serum specimens were collected from ill and well inhabitants of a single island. these were compared with 57 specimens collected in truk in 1964, when heat-labile toxin-producing enterotoxigenic escherichia coli was presumably endemic but cholera did not exist. the serum was tested for vibriocidal antibody and antitoxic antibodies to cholera toxin and heat-labile toxin and the ratio of ... | 1986 | 3946388 |
| foodborne transmission of cholera in micronesian households. | during a cholera epidemic in truk (micronesia), in a survey of 1 village, transmission of vibrio cholerae o1 in the 28 households with illness appeared to be through food contaminated in the home. households in which the index case was a foodhandler had significantly higher attack rates than households in which the index case was not a foodhandler. members of households with illness were significantly more likely to become ill if they had eaten food prepared by a foodhandler who had recently bee ... | 1984 | 6141390 |
| an outbreak of vibrio cholerae o1 infections on ebeye island, republic of the marshall islands, associated with use of an adequately chlorinated water source. | in december 2000, physicians in the republic of the marshall islands reported the first known outbreak of vibrio cholerae o1 infection (biotype el tor, serotype ogawa) from this country. in a matched case-control study on ebeye island, patients with cholera (n=53) had greater odds than persons without cholera (n=104) to have drunk adequately chlorinated water collected from a us military installation on neighboring kwajalein island and transported back to ebeye (matched odds ratio [mor], 8.0; p= ... | 2004 | 14679441 |