| epidemic cholera in guatemala, 1993: transmission of a newly introduced epidemic strain by street vendors. | epidemic cholera reached guatemala in july 1991. by mid-1993, guatemala ranked third in the hemisphere in reported cases of cholera. we conducted a case-control study with two age-, sex-, and neighbourhood-matched controls per patient in periurban guatemala city. twenty-six patients hospitalized for cholera and 52 controls were enrolled. seven (47%) of 15 stool cultures obtained after admission yielded toxigenic vibrio cholerae o1. all seven were resistant to furazolidone, sulfisoxazole, and str ... | 1996 | 8620902 |
| nosocomial infection due to vibrio cholerae in two referral hospitals in guatemala. | we report nosocomial infection with vibrio cholerae 01, in four seriously ill individuals and one infant in guatemala. nosocomial cholera occurs in developing countries in latin america and should be suspected in hospitalized patients with diarrhea, especially during community outbreaks, in order to institute appropriate diagnostic, therapeutic, and control measures. | 1996 | 8805070 |