Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Stool culture “performed worse than would be expected” in diagnosing cholera during a waning outbreak in Haiti.

The deadly bacterium behind cholera epidemics spends only a fraction of its life infecting humans. Most of the time, Vibrio cholerae lurks in estuaries and other semisalty aquatic habitats.

Cholera is a severe diarrheal disease caused by a toxin produced by Vibrio cholerae that leads to life-threatening losses of fluid and electrolytes. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), ...

Single-Dose Azithromycin vs Ciprofloxacin for the Treatment of Cholera Saha D, Karim MM, Khan WA, Ahmed S, Salam MA, Bennish ML. Single-dose azithromycin for the treatment of cholera in adults. N Engl ...

Researchers have uncovered two new cholera substrains in a displaced refugee population in southern Bangladesh, where a pre-emptive mass vaccination campaign of over one million refugees was ...

The NCDC said that it was intensifying rapid diagnostic testing and stool culture tests to contain the outbreak. NCDC said that Lagos state accounted for 60 per cent of all cases, with Lagos Island ...

Ojeifo said that the six confirmed cases were identified among the 40 suspected cholera cases recorded to date in the state. “We sent 23 suspected samples that tested positive to the Rapid Diagnostic ...

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