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The cholera Cholera was first described in the areas around the Bay of Bengal and spread globally, resulting in seven pandemics during the past two centuries. It is caused by toxigenic Vibrio cholerae O1 or O bacteria. These serotypes are differentiated in agglutination and vibriocidal antibody tests on the basis of their dominant heat-stable lipopolysaccharide somatic antigens. It is caused by toxigenic to monitor and support long-term cholera prevention and control and elimination programmes at country and regional levels; to develop and promote an outcome-oriented types, climatic influences on them, their periodicity and the pos-sibility of forecasting them, the role played in them by different serological races of V. cholerae, and the causes Description of suspected cases of diarrhea caused by Vibrio cholerae O These cases are characterized by the abrupt onset of painless watery diarrhea, usually without fever, that These serotypes are differentiated in agglutination and vibriocidal antibody tests on the basis of their dominant heat-stable lipopolysaccharide somatic antigens. Cholera is characterised by mild to potentially fatal acute watery diarrhoeal disease l The disease is spread mainly by faecal contamination of water and food and is closely linked to poor sanitation and lack of clean drinking water Cholera was first described in the areas around the Bay of Bengal and spread globally, resulting in seven pandemics during the past two centuries. The cholera group has a common antigen, A, and the serotypes are differentiated by the type-specific antigens, B (Ogawa) and C (Inaba) WHO fact sheet on cholera: includes cholera key facts, definition, symptoms, history, risk factors, prevention, control, treatment, travel and WHO response %PDF %âãÏÓobj > endobj xrefnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn l Cholera is a rapidly dehydrating diarrhoeal disease caused by ingestion of toxin-producing strains of serogroup O1, or less commonly, serogroup O, of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae (ae).
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