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| | CHOLERA - LoveToKnow Article on CHOLERA |
 | | The theory is worth notice, because a similar relation between the drainage and the water-supply frequently exists in places severely attacked by cholera, and it has repeatedly been observed that the latter is preceded by the prevalence of a milder form of intestinal disease. | | | This is quite in keeping with the observed variability of the microorganism, and with the trend of modern research with regard to the relations between other pathogenic germs and the multifarious gradations of type assumed by other zymotic diseases. | | | Much light has been thrown upon Asiatic cholera by Western experience; and the study of the disease by modern methods has resulted in important additions to our previous knowledge of its nature, causation, mode of dissemination and prevention. |
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http://86.1911encyclopedia.org/C/CH/CHOLERA.htm
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| | eMedicine - Cholera : Article by Vidhu V Thaker, MD |
| | Antimicrobial therapy for cholera is an adjunct to fluid therapy and is not an essential therapeutic component. | | | Antimicrobial therapy is an adjunct to fluid therapy of cholera and is not an essential component. | | | The precise immune response that is responsible for recovery from cholera and prevention of cholera remains unclear. |
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http://www.emedicine.com/ped/topic382.htm
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| | Guidelines for Cholera Control |
| | Medical and paramedical personnel involved in the treatment of cholera should receive intensive and continuing training to ensure that they are familiar with the most effective techniques for the management of patients with cholera. | | | If a cholera outbreak occurs in an area where the peripheral health services are inadequate or have no experience in controlling the disease, mobile teams from national or provincial level may be called upon for assistance. | | | Prompt fluid therapy with volumes of electrolyte solution, enough to correct dehydration, acidosis and hypokalemia is the cornerstone to cholera therapy. |
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http://www.doh.gov.za/issues/cholera/guidelines.html
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| | Cholera |
| | cholerae is noninvasive, affecting the small intestine through secretion of an enterotoxin. | | | Most importantly, variations in LPS occur in vivo and in vitro, which may be correlated with reversion in nature of nonepidemic strains to classic epidemic strains and vice versa. | | | The clinical description of cholera begins with sudden onset of massive diarrhea. |
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http://textbookofbacteriology.net/cholera.html
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| | In Milwaukee, efforts to apply basic health measures were thwarted by rag-pickers and "swill children" who saw the removal of offal and garbage from the streets as a threat to their livelihood. | | | Originally, the medical profession held that cholera wasn't contagious. | | | A variety of treatments were used, depending on the whim of the caregiver, with differing degrees of success, which seemed to depend more on fortune, than skill. |
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http://www.posen-l.com/Cholera.htm
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| | Electrolytes control the fluid balance of the body and are important in muscle contraction, energy generation, and almost all major biochemical reactions in the body. | | | There is no particular season in which cholera is more likely to occur. | | | Residents of cholera-plagued areas should discuss the value of the vaccine with their doctor. |
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http://www.healthatoz.com/healthatoz/Atoz/ency/cholera.jsp
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| | Cholera definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms |
| | Thanks to modern sanitary practices, cholera is no longer as common as it once was, but it remains a global health threat. | | | As head of a commission investigating the disease, Koch went to Egypt where an epidemic was taking place and there he found some sort of bacterium in the intestines of those dead of cholera but could neither isolate the organism nor infect animals with it. | | | Our Cholera Main Article provides a comprehensive look at the who, what, when and how of Cholera |
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http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=6534
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| | Health and Hygiene in the Nineteenth Century |
| | One doctor recalled: "Our other plagues were home-bred, and part of ourselves, as it were; we had a habit of looking at them with a fatal indifference, indeed, inasmuch as it led us to believe that they could be effectually subdued. | | | From its point of origin in Bengal it had taken five years to cross Europe, so that when it reached the course of Durham, British doctors were well aware of its nature, if not its cause. | | | Nothing occupies a nation's mind with the subject of health like a general contagion. |
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http://www.victorianweb.org/science/health/health10.html
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| | Cholera |
| | Keep in mind that no country requires immunization against cholera as a condition for entry. | | | When the kidneys lose their filtering ability, excess amounts of fluids and wastes build up in your body — a potentially life-threatening condition. | | | Very low potassium levels interfere with heart and nerve function and are life threatening. |
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http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/library/DS/00579.html
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| | Cholera At Home And Abroad |
| | The organism Vibrio cholerae and other Vibrios are motile, comma shaped gram negative bacilli which are facultatively anaerobic. | | | A bed, "cholera cot", designed for patient comfort and to facilitate stool drainage and measurement can be employed. | | | The clinical syndrome of cholera varies from a mild diarrheal illness to the severe cholera gravis syndrome. |
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| | BBC NEWS Health Medical notes Medical notes: Cholera |
| | A well-organised response to cholera, says the World Health Organization, can reduce death rates to 1%. | | | An unprepared community, however, will experience many times this death rate, it says. | | | Most symptomatic cases are hard to distinguish from other illnesses that cause diarrhoea - it is only in one in 10 that severe symptoms such as dehydration occur. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/health/medical_notes/3009779.stm
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| | eMedicine - Cholera : Article by Sajeev Handa, MBBCh, BAO |
| | Emerging drug resistance in certain parts of the world is a concern. | | | Difficulties in implementing such practices have stimulated the century-long search for vaccines. | | | The treatment of patients with cholera "sicca" is difficult because the evaluation of the degree of dehydration is overshadowed by the accumulation of fluid in the intestinal lumen. |
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| | WHO Cholera |
| | Use of this vaccine to prevent or control cholera outbreaks is not recommended because it may give a false sense of security to vaccinated subjects and to health authorities, who may then neglect more effective measures. | | | Cholera is an acute intestinal infection caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. | | | During an epidemic, 80-90% of diarrhoea patients can be treated by oral rehydration alone, but patients who become severely dehydrated must be given intravenous fluids. |
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http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs107/en
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| | Health 24 - Cholera |
| | Cholera and HIV, Cholera vaccine works for HIV | | | You are in: Health24 : Medical : Disease centres : Cholera | | | Use our disease centres as a resource for up-to-date, in-depth info on specific conditions. |
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http://www.health24.com/medical/Condition_centres/777-792-803.asp
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| | Cholera |
| | This is best accomplished using oral rehydration therapy with the World Health Organization solution (3.5 g NaCl, 2.5 g NaHCO | | | Bacteriologic identification is not necessary to treat cholera, as it can be diagnosed clinically. | | | The entire clinical syndrome is caused by the action of the toxin on the intestinal epithelial cell. |
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| | Cholera - Blue Book: IDEAS - Victorian Government Health Information, Australia |
| | Prompt fluid therapy with adequate volumes of electrolyte solution such as Gastrolyte is critical as life-threatening dehydration may rapidly occur. | | | Cholera is subject to quarantine conditions under the Commonwealth Quarantine Act 1908. | | | The term non-Vibrio cholera (NVC) refers to cases of cholera-like illness caused by organisms other than the 01 or 0139 Vibrio species. |
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| | John Snow - a historical giant in epidemiology |
| | LOCATION OF In 1854, John Snow analyzed the grand experiment, a natural study of the association between water exposure and cholera. | | | The author of this 2000 article in the Journal of Medical Biography presents an interesting account of Farr, often viewed as the "father" of modern vital and health statistics. | | | Biological, medical and epidemiological description of Vibrio cholerae, the agent causing Cholera. |
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http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow.html
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| | Cholera |
| | Cholera is an illness caused by a germ invading the bowels. | | | It is hoped that this will enable drugs or vaccines to control the disease in the undeveloped world. | | | The cause of cholera was first identified in 1854. |
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/DIScholera.htm
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| | Cholera is a bacterial disease that affects the intestinal tract. | | | Each year, Medical College of Wisconsin physicians care for more than 180,000 patients, representing nearly 500,000 patient visits. | | | In some foreign countries, however, it may be required as a condition of entry. |
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| | Cholera Fact Sheet |
| | The cholera organisms are found in the stool or vomitus of an infected person. | | | The majority of persons exposed to the cholera organism will not develop any symptoms. | | | Vibrio cholerae is found in people (with or without symptoms). |
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| | US FDA/CFSAN - Bad Bug Book: Vibrio cholerae Serogroup O1 |
| | Antibiotics such as tetracycline have been demonstrated to shorten the course of the illness. | | | All people are believed to be susceptible to infection, but individuals with damaged or undeveloped immunity, reduced gastric acidity, or malnutrition may suffer more severe forms of the illness. | | | Infective dose -- Human volunteer feeding studies utilizing healthy individuals have demonstrated that approximately one million organisms must be ingested to cause illness. |
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| | MDTravel Health - Cholera - old and new vaccines |
| | Cholera is an intestinal infection caused by a bacterium known as Vibrio cholerae. | | | MDTravel Health - Cholera - old and new vaccines | | | Antibiotics are also given, usually tetracycline or doxycycline, though quinolone antibiotics such as ciprofloxacin and levofloxacin are also effective. |
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| | Cholera |
| | Cholera is an acute infectious disease caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, which lives and multiples (colonizes) in the small intestine but does not destroy or invade the intestinal tissue (noninvasive). | | | Cholera is not a difficult disease to treat and most people recover well with appropriate oral fluid replacement (hydration). | | | There are several strains of V. cholerae and the severity of the disease is based on the particular infectious strain. |
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| | How the Cholera Bacterium Got Its Virulence |
| | In the first set of experiments, the researchers replaced the cholera toxin gene of Vibrio cholerae 01 with an antibiotic-resistant gene. | | | Yet in the series of experiments reported in Science, Mekalanos and Waldron show that the CTX phage does move from a donor bacterium (Vibrio cholera 01) to a nonvirulent recipient bacterium, bringing with it all of its genes. | | | This gene, known as Tox R, is designed to sense the intestinal environment. |
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| | cholera |
| | Update: cholera - Western Hemisphere, and recommendations for treatment of cholera. | | | cholera or Asiatic cholera,acute infectious disease caused by strains of the bacterium | | | Blemished physiologies: Delacroix, Paganini, and the cholera epidemic of 1832.(portrait of Niccolo Paganini by Eugene Delacroix) |
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| | The Toxin Project (Biomedical Structure Center) or go to this portal (framed version) | | | cholerae serogroup O1 in the Bad Bug Book (US FDA) | | | View the organism: Vibrio cholerae under the microscope (courtesy D. Kunkel) |
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http://www.bacteriamuseum.org/species/cholera.shtml
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| | The Political Graveyard: Politicians Who Died of Cholera |
| | convention, contracted cholera, from which he later died, in Newark, | | | The site opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on March 10, 2005. | | | The Political Graveyard: Politicians Who Died of Cholera |
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