Volume 18, Number 11—November 2012
Dispatch
Vibrio fluvialis in Patients with Diarrhea, Kolkata, India
Goutam Chowdhury, Gururaja P. Pazhani, Devarati Dutta, Sucharita Guin, Sanjucta Dutta, Santanu Ghosh, Hidemasa Izumiya, Masahiro Asakura, Shinji Yamasaki, Yoshifumi Takeda, Eiji Arakawa, Haruo Watanabe, Asish K. Mukhopadhyay, Mihir K. Bhattacharya, K. Rajendran, Gopinath Balakrish Nair, and Thandavarayan Ramamurthy
Table 1
Prevalence of Vibrio fluvialis among patients with diarrhea, Kolkata, India, 2002–2009
| Year | No. samples | No. (%) V. fluvialis isolates | No. (%) patients |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sole infection | Mixed infection | |||
| 2002 | 2,285 | 16 (0.7) | 5 (0.2) | 11 (0.5) |
| 2003 | 1,673 | 8 (0.5) | 1 (0.1) | 7 (0.4) |
| 2004 | 2,430 | 19 (0.8) | 6 (0.2) | 13 (0.5) |
| 2005 | 1,472 | 17 (1.1) | 7 (0.5) | 10 (0.7) |
| 2006 | 930 | 12 (1.3) | 4 (0.4) | 8 (0.9) |
| 2007 | 842 | 9 (1.1) | 2 (0.2) | 7 (0.8) |
| 2008 | 1,124 | 24 (2.1) | 8 (0.7) | 16 (1.4) |
| 2009 | 1,153 | 26 (2.2) | 10 (0.9) | 16 (1.4) |
| Total | 11,909 | 131 (1.1) | 43 (0.4) | 88 (0.7) |
