| cholera outbreak --- haiti, october 2010. | an outbreak of cholera is ongoing in haiti. on october 21, 2010, toxigenic vibrio cholerae o1, serotype ogawa, biotype el tor was identified by the national laboratory of public health of the ministry of public health and population in haiti. identification of the isolate was confirmed by cdc. antimicrobial susceptibility testing of selected v. cholerae o1 isolates conducted at the national laboratory of public health and at cdc demonstrated susceptibility to tetracycline (susceptibility to this ... | 2010 | 21048563 |
| infectious diseases. haiti's outbreak is latest in cholera's new global assault. | | 2010 | 21051601 |
| update: cholera outbreak --- haiti, 2010. | on october 19, 2010, the haitian ministry of public health and population (mspp) was notified of unusually high numbers of patients from artibonite and centre departments who had acute watery diarrhea and dehydration, in some cases leading to death. within 4 days, the national public health laboratory (lnsp) in haiti isolated vibrio cholerae serogroup o1, serotype ogawa, from stool specimens obtained from patients in the affected areas by an investigation team from mspp and cdc haiti. this repor ... | 2010 | 21085088 |
| cholera's western front. | | 2010 | 21112083 |
| the origin of the haitian cholera outbreak strain. | although cholera has been present in latin america since 1991, it had not been epidemic in haiti for at least 100 years. recently, however, there has been a severe outbreak of cholera in haiti. | 2010 | 21142692 |
| five complementary interventions to slow cholera: haiti. | | 2010 | 21146206 |
| 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 |
| origin of vibrio cholerae in haiti. | | 2011 | 21453867 |
| recent clonal origin of cholera in haiti. | altered el tor vibrio cholerae o1, with classical cholera toxin b gene, was isolated from 16 patients with severe diarrhea at st. mark's hospital, arbonite, haiti, <3 weeks after onset of the current cholera epidemic. variable-number tandem-repeat typing of 187 isolates showed minimal diversity, consistent with a point source for the epidemic. | 2011 | 21470464 |
| vibrio cholerae in traveler from haiti to canada. | to the editor: a nationwide outbreak of cholera caused by vibrio cholerae o1 serotype ogawa began in haiti in october 2010 and has since resulted in >200,000 illnesses and 4,000 deaths (1). additional cases of cholera attributed to the outbreak strain have subsequently been reported in the neighboring dominican republic and in florida and new jersey in the united states. in these instances, illness was related to travel to haiti or consumption of contaminated water on the island of hispaniola (w ... | 2011 | 21749787 |
| drug-resistance mechanisms in vibrio cholerae o1 outbreak strain, haiti, 2010. | to increase understanding of drug-resistant vibrio cholerae, we studied selected molecular mechanisms of antimicrobial drug resistance in the 2010 haiti v. cholerae outbreak strain. most resistance resulted from acquired genes located on an integrating conjugative element showing high homology to an integrating conjugative element identified in a v. cholerae isolate from india. | 2011 | 22099122 |
| cholera in united states associated with epidemic in hispaniola. | cholera is rare in the united states (annual average 6 cases). since epidemic cholera began in hispaniola in 2010, a total of 23 cholera cases caused by toxigenic vibrio cholerae o1 have been confirmed in the united states. twenty-two case-patients reported travel to hispaniola and 1 reported consumption of seafood from haiti. | 2011 | 22204035 |
| Characterization of Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor biotype variant clinical isolates from Bangladesh and Haiti, including a molecular genetic analysis of virulence genes. | Vibrio cholerae serogroup O1, the causative agent of the diarrheal disease cholera, is divided into two biotypes: classical and El Tor. Both biotypes produce the major virulence factors toxin-coregulated pilus (TCP) and cholera toxin (CT). Although possessing genotypic and phenotypic differences, El Tor biotype strains displaying classical biotype traits have been reported and subsequently were dubbed El Tor variants. Of particular interest are reports of El Tor variants that produce various lev ... | 2011 | 21880975 |
| Toxigenic Vibrio cholerae O1 in water and seafood, Haiti. | During the 2010 cholera outbreak in Haiti, water and seafood samples were collected to detect Vibrio cholerae. The outbreak strain of toxigenic V. cholerae O1 serotype Ogawa was isolated from freshwater and seafood samples. The cholera toxin gene was detected in harbor water samples. | 2011 | 22099121 |