Volume 19, Number 3—March 2013
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Vibrio cholerae Non-O1, Non-O139 Serogroups and Cholera-like Diarrhea, Kolkata, India
Devarati Dutta1, Goutam Chowdhury1, Gururaja P. Pazhani, Sucharita Guin, Sanjucta Dutta, Santanu Ghosh, K. Rajendran, Ranjan K. Nandy, Asish K. Mukhopadhyay, Mihir K. Bhattacharya, Utpala Mitra, Yoshifumi Takeda, G. Balakrish Nair, and Thandavarayan Ramamurthy
Table 1
Prevalence rates of Vibrio cholerae non-O1, non-O139 strains among patients with diarrhea, Kolkata, India
| Year | No. fecal specimens | No. (%) serogroups isolated | Infection status |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single | Mixed | |||
| 2002 | 2,285 | 49 (2.1) | 30 | 19 |
| 2003 | 1,673 | 53 (3.2) | 29 | 24 |
| 2004 | 2,430 | 31 (1.3) | 16 | 15 |
| 2005 | 1,472 | 38 (2.6) | 27 | 11 |
| 2006 | 930 | 19 (2.0) | 12 | 7 |
| 2007 | 744 | 24 (3.2) | 23 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1,124 | 35 (3.1) | 22 | 13 |
| 2009 | 1,380 | 17 (1.2) | 8 | 9 |
| 2010 | 681 | 15 (2.2) | 8 | 7 |
| Total | 12,719 | 281 (2.2) | 175 | 106 |
1These authors contributed equally to this article.
