Objectives The oral rehydration solution is the most efficient method to treat cholera;
however, it does not interfere in the action mechanism of the main virulence factor produced …

Cholera is a dramatic clinical illness that requires rapid diagnosis and aggressive therapy.
Clinical signs and symptoms of mild, moderate and severe dehydration must be determined …

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Intestinal infection with Vibrio cholerae results in secretory diarrhea with potentially massive
fluid losses and volume depletion. Morbidity and mortality associated with cholera remain a …

Background: Cholera is a potentially lethal diarrheal disease produced by Vibrio cholerae
serotypes O1 El Tor and O139. Known since antiquity, the condition causes epidemics in …

Abstract In 1959–1961, two major international centers for the study of cholera were
established in Calcutta and in Dacca, Bangladesh. As the result of collaborative work in …

Cholera continues to be an important public health problem among many poorer
communities in Africa, Asia and South America, despite the bacteriology and epidemiology …

A century and a half ago, the intravenous treatment of cholera by replacement of water and
salts ushered into medicine the technology of intravenous treatment and the basic concept …

Oral rehydration therapy was developed in the 1960s. During the past three decades it has
been used widely and successfully in the treatment of cholera and other diarrheal diseases …

This chapter reviews the pathophysiology of cholera, focusing on the most common and
important complication, dehydration; describes the clinical features of patients with cholera; …