Seasonal cholera from multiple small outbreaks, rural Bangladesh

Emerg Infect Dis. 2008 May;14(5):831-3. doi: 10.3201/eid1405.071116.

Abstract

Clinical and environmental Vibrio cholerae organisms collected from February 2004 through April 2005 were systematically isolated from 2 rural Bangladeshi locales. Their genetic relatedness was evaluated at 5 loci that contained a variable number of tandem repeats (VNTR). The observed minimal overlap in VNTR patterns between the 2 communities was consistent with sequential, small outbreaks from local sources.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Bangladesh / epidemiology
  • Base Sequence
  • Cholera / epidemiology*
  • Cholera / microbiology
  • Disease Outbreaks*
  • Fresh Water / microbiology
  • Geologic Sediments / microbiology
  • Humans
  • Minisatellite Repeats / genetics
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Plankton / microbiology
  • Rural Population*
  • Seasons*
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA
  • Vibrio cholerae / classification*
  • Vibrio cholerae / genetics
  • Vibrio cholerae / isolation & purification*
  • Vibrio cholerae O1 / classification
  • Vibrio cholerae O1 / genetics
  • Vibrio cholerae O1 / isolation & purification
  • Vibrio cholerae O139 / classification
  • Vibrio cholerae O139 / genetics
  • Vibrio cholerae O139 / isolation & purification
  • Vibrio cholerae non-O1 / classification
  • Vibrio cholerae non-O1 / genetics
  • Vibrio cholerae non-O1 / isolation & purification