Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

Reemergence of Epidemic Vibrio cholerae O139, Bangladesh

Shah M. Faruque*, Nityananda Chowdhury*, M. Kamruzzaman*, Q. Shafi Ahmad*, A.S.G. Faruque*, M. Abdus Salam*, T. Ramamurthy†, G. Balakrish Nair*, Andrej Weintraub‡, and David A. Sack*

Author affiliations: *International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh; †National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Beliaghata, Calcutta, India; ‡Karolinska Instute, Huddinge, Sweden

Main Article

Figure 1

Numbers of diarrhea patients with cholera attributed to Vibrio cholerae O1 and O139 from January 2001 to June 2002. Those positive for cholera are extrapolated from a 2% sample of all patients receiving treatment.

Figure 1. Numbers of diarrhea patients with cholera attributed to Vibrio cholerae O1 and O139 from January 2001 to June 2002. Those positive for cholera are extrapolated from a 2% sample of all patients receiving treatment.

Main Article

Top of Page

The opinions expressed by authors contributing to this journal do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Public Health Service, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or the authors' affiliated institutions. Use of trade names is for identification only and does not imply endorsement by any of the groups named above.