21. WHO | Cholera cholera is an acute intestinal infection caused by ingestion of food or water contaminated with the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. It has a short incubation http://www.who.int/topics/cholera/en/

Home About WHO Countries Health topics ... WHO sites Cholera WHO Health topics Cholera Cholera Cholera is an acute intestinal infection caused by ingestion of food or water contaminated with the bacterium Vibrio cholerae . It has a short incubation period, from less than one day to five days, and produces an enterotoxin that causes a copious, painless, watery diarrhoea that can quickly lead to severe dehydration and death if treatment is not promptly given. Vomiting also occurs in most patients. More about cholera New publication Guidelines for the control of shigellosis, including epidemics due to Shigella dysenteriae type 1 TECHNICAL INFORMATION Treatment Prevention and control Surveillance and number of cases Vaccines ... Supplies: diarrhoeal disease kits GENERAL INFORMATION Fact sheet Frequently asked questions and information for travellers Impact of cholera RELATED TOPICS Shigella dystentery Typhoid fever CHOLERA OUTBREAKS 26 August 2005 Cholera in West Africa Full text Cholera outbreak archives STATISTICS Annual summaries INFORMATION RESOURCES Publications Weekly epidemiological record International travel and health: chapter 5 [pdf 1.2Mb]

22. Vibrio Cholerae Vibrio cholerae and Asiatic cholera Kenneth Todar University of WisconsinMadison Department of Bacteriology http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

23. WHO | Cholera cholera is an acute intestinal infection caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. In 1970 cholera invaded West Africa, which had not experienced the http://www.who.int/entity/mediacentre/factsheets/fs107/en/

All WHO This site only Home About WHO Countries Health topics ... Contacts Media centre WHO WHO sites Media centre Fact sheets ... printable version Fact sheet N°107 Revised March 2000 Cholera Cholera is an acute intestinal infection caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. It has a short incubation period, from less than one day to five days, and produces an enterotoxin that causes a copious, painless, watery diarrhoea that can quickly lead to severe dehydration and death if treatment is not promptly given. Vomiting also occurs in most patients. Most persons infected with V. cholerae do not become ill, although the bacterium is present in their faeces for 7-14 days. When illness does occur, more than 90% of episodes are of mild or moderate severity and are difficult to distinguish clinically from other types of acute diarrhoea. Less than 10% of ill persons develop typical cholera with signs of moderate or severe dehydration. Background The vibrio responsible for the seventh pandemic, now in progress, is known as V. cholerae

24. FDA/CFSAN Bad Bug Book Vibrio Cholerae Serogroup O1 2. Nature of Acute Disease cholera is the name of the infection caused by V. cholerae. 3. Nature of Disease CDC Case Definition http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

25. CNN.com - Cholera Epidemic Spreads Among South Africans Without Clean Water - No CNN http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/africa/11/01/southafrica.cholera.ap/index.html

world africa Editions myCNN ... Feedback CNN Sites CNN CNN Europe CNNfn CNNSI myCNN CNNfyi AllPolitics Languages Search CNN.com CNNSI.com CNNfn.com The Web WORLD TOP STORIES Thousands dead in India; quake toll rapidly rising Israelis, Palestinians make final push before Israeli election Gates pledges $100 million for AIDS Davos protesters face tear gas ... MORE TOP STORIES Thousands dead in India; quake toll rapidly rising Israelis, Palestinians make final push before Israeli election Davos protesters face tear gas MORE ... MORE MARKETS 4:30pm ET, 4/16 DJIA NAS SPORTS Jordan says farewell for the third time ... LOCAL EDITIONS: CNN.com Europe change default edition MULTIMEDIA: video video archive audio multimedia showcase ... more services E-MAIL: Subscribe to one of our news e-mail lists Enter your address: DISCUSSION: chat feedback CNN WEB SITES: CNNfyi.com CNN.com Europe AsiaNow Spanish ... Korean Headlines TIME INC. SITES: Go To ... Time.com People Money Fortune EW CNN NETWORKS: CNN anchors transcripts Turner distribution SITE INFO: help contents search ad info ... jobs WEB SERVICES: Cholera epidemic spreads among South Africans without clean water EMPANGENI, South Africa (AP) Several times a day, Roslina Motha walks from her home in rural South Africa to a nearby river to fill two 25-liter (6 1/2 gallon) containers with water.

26. Contribution Of The ADP-ribosylating And Receptor-binding Keywords E. coli heatlabile enterotoxin, cholera toxin, cAMP, epithelial cells, cytokine expression Abbreviations Etx, E. http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

27. Cholera cholera (frequently called Asiatic cholera or epidemic cholera) is a severe diarrheal V. cholerae produces cholera toxin, the model for enterotoxins, http://textbookofbacteriology.net/cholera.html

Todar's Online Textbook of Bacteriology Vibrio cholerae and Asiatic Cholera Introduction The genus Vibrio consists of Gram-negative straight or curved rods, motile by means of a single polar flagellum. Vibrios are capable of both respiratory and fermentative metabolism. O is a universal electron acceptor; they do not denitrify. Most species are oxidase-positive. In most ways vibrios are related to enteric bacteria, but they share some properties with pseudomonads a well. The Family Vibrionaceae is found in the "Facultatively Anaerobic Gram-negative Rods" in Bergey's Manual (1986), on the level with the Family Enterobacteriaceae . In the revisionist taxonomy of 2001 (Bergey's Manual), based on phylogenetic analysis, Vibrionaceae Pseudomonadaceae and Enterobacteriaceae are all landed in the Gammaproteobacteria. Vibrios are distinguished from enterics by being oxidase-positive and motile by means of polar flagella. Vibrios are distinguished from pseudomonads by being fermentative as well as oxidative in their metabolism. Of the vibrios that are clinically significant to humans, Vibrio cholerae

28. Medmicro Cholera, Vibrio Cholerae O1 And O139, And Other Pathogenic cholera, Vibrio cholerae O1 and O139, and Other Pathogenic Vibrios http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

29. Gangliosides That Associate With Lipid Rafts Mediate Transport Of Gangliosides That Associate with Lipid Rafts Mediate Transport of cholera and Related Toxins from the Plasma Membrane to Endoplasmic Reticulm http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

30. Mode Of Communication Of Cholera(John Snow, 1855) John Snow s historic text, On the Mode of Communication of cholera, published in London in 1855. http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/snowbook.html

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31. CNN.com - Cholera Spreads In Liberian City - Sep. 1, 2003 CNN http://cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/09/01/liberia.cholera.reut/index.html

The Web CNN.com Home Page World U.S. Weather ... Special Reports SERVICES Video E-mail Newsletters CNNtoGO SEARCH Web CNN.com Cholera spreads in Liberian city Hawa Bagoh, 6, being treated for respiratory problems in the Medicins Sans Frontieres Hospital in Monrovia. Story Tools SPECIAL REPORT Interactive: The U.S. and Liberia Profile: Charles Taylor Map: West Africa Fact Sheet: Liberia MONROVIA, Liberia (Reuters) A cholera epidemic is raging in Liberia's capital, where hundreds of thousands of displaced people are living in overcrowded camps with little sanitation, a World Health Organisation (WHO) official said. Data collected from aid agencies running hospitals and clinics across Monrovia showed that 1,203 new cases of cholera were registered between August 11-17, up from 727 cases in the previous week. Omar Khatib, the WHO representative in the West African country, told Reuters late on Sunday that the figure compared with an average of 300 to 400 new cases per week usually registered in the coastal city at the peak of the rainy season, when cholera outbreaks are more common. "This is a very big number. It's the result of the big influx of people into the city during the fighting and the fact that these people are living in overcrowded camps with no sanitation,'' Khatib said.

32. Cholera In Peru Medical Geography and cholera in Per http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

33. FDA/CFSAN Bad Bug Book Vibrio Cholerae Serogroup O1 The production of cholera toxin by the attached bacteria results in the watery Since the onset of the Vibrio cholera epidemic in Latin America in 1991, http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/chap7.html

C enter for F ood S A pplied N utrition Foodborne Pathogenic Microorganisms and Natural Toxins Handbook Vibrio cholerae Serogroup O1 1. Name of the Organism: Vibrio cholerae Serogroup O1 This bacterium is responsible for Asiatic or epidemic cholera. No major outbreaks of this disease have occurred in the United States since 1911. However, sporadic cases occurred between 1973 and 1991, suggesting the possible reintroduction of the organism into the U.S. marine and estuarine environment. The cases between 1973 and 1991 were associated with the consumption of raw shellfish or of shellfish either improperly cooked or re-contaminated after proper cooking. Environmental studies have demonstrated that strains of this organism may be found in the temperate estuarine and marine coastal areas surrounding the United States. In 1991 cholera was reported for the first time in this century in South America, starting in Peru. The outbreaks quickly grew to epidemic proportions and spread to other South American and Central American countries, and into Mexico. 1,099,882 cases and 10,453 deaths were reported in the Western Hemisphere between January 1991 and July 1995. Although the South American strain of V. cholerae O1 has been isolated from Gulf Coast waters, presumably transmitted by ships off-loading contaminated ballast water, no cases of cholera have been attributed to fish or shellfish harvested from U.S. waters. However, over 100 cases of cholera caused by the South American strain have been reported in the United States. These cases were travelers returning from South America, or were associated with illegally smuggled, temperature-abused crustaceans from South America.

34. CNN.com - Scientists Sequence Cholera Genome - August 2, 2000 CNN http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/08/02/cholera.genome.02/index.html

health Editions myCNN Video ... Feedback CNN Sites CNN CNN Europe CNNfn CNNSI myCNN CNNfyi AllPolitics Languages Search CNN.com CNNSI.com CNNfn.com The Web HEALTH TOP STORIES New treatments hold out hope for breast cancer patients MORE TOP STORIES Thousands dead in India; quake toll rapidly rising Israelis, Palestinians make final push before Israeli election Davos protesters confront police MORE ... MORE MARKETS 4:30pm ET, 4/16 DJIA NAS SPORTS Jordan says farewell for the third time ... LOCAL EDITIONS: CNN.com Europe change default edition MULTIMEDIA: video video archive audio multimedia showcase ... more services E-MAIL: Subscribe to one of our news e-mail lists Enter your address: DISCUSSION: chat feedback CNN WEB SITES: CNNfyi.com CNN.com Europe AsiaNow Spanish ... Korean Headlines TIME INC. SITES: Go To ... Time.com People Money Fortune EW CNN NETWORKS: CNN anchors transcripts Turner distribution SITE INFO: help contents search ad info ... jobs WEB SERVICES: Scientists sequence cholera genome Research could lead to more effective treatments From staff and wire reports WASHINGTON (CNN) - Researchers have decoded the genetic map of the bacterium that causes cholera, a potentially fatal intestinal illness that sickens hundreds of thousands of people a year, mostly in the developing world. "Determining the genomic sequence of medically important pathogens such as Vibrio cholerae holds enormous promise for helping us fight some of the world's most intractable infectious diseases," said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which funded the project.

35. Malawi Cholera Outbreak Kills 28 CNN http://cnn.com/2002/WORLD/africa/01/04/health.malawi.cholera.reut/index.html

36. CNN.com - WHO Says Cholera Kills 26 In South Africa - October 18, 2000 CNN http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/africa/10/18/safrica.cholera.reut/index.html

world africa Editions myCNN ... Feedback CNN Sites CNN CNN Europe CNNfn CNNSI myCNN CNNfyi AllPolitics Languages Search CNN.com CNNSI.com CNNfn.com The Web WORLD TOP STORIES Thousands dead in India; quake toll rapidly rising Israelis, Palestinians make final push before Israeli election Gates pledges $100 million for AIDS Davos protesters face tear gas ... MORE TOP STORIES Thousands dead in India; quake toll rapidly rising Israelis, Palestinians make final push before Israeli election Davos protesters face tear gas MORE ... MORE MARKETS 4:30pm ET, 4/16 DJIA NAS SPORTS Jordan says farewell for the third time ... LOCAL EDITIONS: CNN.com Europe change default edition MULTIMEDIA: video video archive audio multimedia showcase ... more services E-MAIL: Subscribe to one of our news e-mail lists Enter your address: DISCUSSION: chat feedback CNN WEB SITES: CNNfyi.com CNN.com Europe AsiaNow Spanish ... Korean Headlines TIME INC. SITES: Go To ... Time.com People Money Fortune EW CNN NETWORKS: CNN anchors transcripts Turner distribution SITE INFO: help contents search ad info ... jobs WEB SERVICES: WHO says cholera kills 26 in South Africa GENEVA, Switzerland (Reuters) An outbreak of cholera has killed 26 people in South Africa's eastern Kwazulu-Natal province since the first case was reported in August, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.

37. Cholera Outbreak In Northern Nigeria Infects More Than 200 CNN http://cnn.com/2001/WORLD/africa/11/14/nigeria.cholera.ap/index.html

38. Cholera cholera is an acute infectious disease caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, which lives and multiples http://my.webmd.com/hw/health_guide_atoz/nord144.asp

var guid_source = ""; var guid_source_id = ""; //unused var encodedurl = ""; WebMD Today Home WebMD News Center XML News via RSS Member Services WebMD University My WebMD Find a Physician Medical Info Check Symptoms Medical Library Health Tools Clinical Trials ... Women, Men, Lifestyle Who We Are About WebMD Site Map Health Topics Symptoms ... For a Complete Report Cholera Important It is possible that the main title of the report Cholera is not the name you expected. Please check the synonyms listing to find the alternate name(s) and disorder subdivision(s) covered by this report. Synonyms Asiatic Cholera Epidemic Cholera Disorder Subdivisions None General Discussion Cholera is an acute infectious disease caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, which lives and multiples (colonizes) in the small intestine but does not destroy or invade the intestinal tissue (noninvasive). The major symptom of cholera is massive watery diarrhea that occurs because of a toxin secreted by the bacteria that stimulates the cells of the small intestine to secrete fluid. There are several strains of V. cholerae and the severity of the disease is based on the particular infectious strain. Cholera is not a difficult disease to treat and most people recover well with appropriate oral fluid replacement (hydration). However, if the disease goes untreated, it can rapidly lead to shock, as a result of fluid and electrolyte loss, and to life-threatening complications.

39. National Institute Of Cholera And Enteric Diseases Involved in research in molecular epidemiology, biochemistry and molecular biology and microbiology, virology and parasitology. http://icmr.nic.in/niced.htm

National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases Institute Profile History Thrust areas of research Staff/ Departmental structure Objectives ... Home History Back Home Objectives a. To conduct biomedical and operational research in diarrhoeal diseases with the ultimate goal of developing appropriate strategies for their control. b. To disseminate research information through training as well as to develop teaching modules and methodologies for training of the health care personnel at different levels. c. To provide referral services and to extend support to the National Diarrhoeal Disease Control Programme. d. To provide research information and expertise for tackling National emergencies caused by epidemics of cholera and other diarrhoeal diseases. e. To conduct research in HIV/AIDS Back Home Thrust Areas of Research a. Community studies and epidemiological investigation. b. Molecular epidemiology. c. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. d. Clinical research. e. Microbiology, Virology and Parasitology. f. Immunology g.

40. Communicable Disease Fact Sheet Communicable Disease Fact Sheet, cholera. While cholera is a rare disease in the US , those who may be at risk include people traveling to foreign http://www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/communicable_diseases/en/cholera.htm

skip to main content New York State Governor Pataki map-NY ... Department of Health Information for a Healthy New York Home Contact Help A-Z Index Search Search this site: Site Contents Health Insurance Programs Employment Opportunities Forms Grants/Funding Opportunities ... Related Sites You are Here: Home Page Communicable Disease Cholera Cholera What is cholera? Cholera is a bacterial disease that affects the intestinal tract. It is caused by a germ called Vibrio cholerae. Although only a few cases are recognized in the United States each year, epidemic levels of cholera have recently been reported in parts of Central and South America. Who gets cholera? While cholera is a rare disease in the U. S. , those who may be at risk include people traveling to foreign countries where outbreaks are occurring and people who consume raw or undercooked seafood from warm coastal waters subject to sewage contamination. In both instances, the risk is small. How is the germ spread? The cholera germ is passed in the stools. It is spread by eating or drinking food or water contaminated by the fecal waste of an infected person. This occurs more often in underdeveloped countries lacking adequate water supplies and proper sewage disposal. What are the symptoms of cholera?

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