| 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 |
| 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 |