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Euro Surveill. Toxin producing Vibrio cholerae O75 outbreak, United States, March to April 2011
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Eurosurveillance, Volume 16, Issue 20, 19 May 2011
Rapid communications
Toxin producing Vibrio cholerae O75 outbreak, United States, March to April 2011
TJ M Onifade<SUP>1</SUP><SUP>,2</SUP>, R Hutchinson<SUP>1</SUP><SUP>,2</SUP>, K Van Zile<SUP>1</SUP><SUP>,2</SUP>, D Bodager<SUP>1</SUP><SUP>,2</SUP>, R Baker<SUP>3</SUP>, C Blackmore (
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Citation style for this article: Onifade TM, Hutchinson R, Van Zile K, Bodager D, Baker R, Blackmore C. Toxin producing Vibrio cholerae O75 outbreak, United States, March to April 2011. Euro Surveill. 2011;16(20):pii=19870. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/View...rticleId=19870
Date of submission: 16 May 2011 <HR>The Florida Department of Health, Florida, United States, is investigating a Vibrio cholerae O75 outbreak. Ten cases with disease onsets from 23 March to 13 April 2011, presented with gastrointestinal symptoms of diarrhoea, nausea, vomiting, cramps, chills, and/or fever, after consuming raw or lightly cooked oysters harvested from Apalachicola Bay, Florida. Symptoms were milder than those during outbreaks of epidemic (serogroup O1 and O139) Vibrio cholerae; no case required rehydration treatment or hospitalisation.
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Eurosurveillance, Volume 16, Issue 20, 19 May 2011
Rapid communications
Toxin producing Vibrio cholerae O75 outbreak, United States, March to April 2011
TJ M Onifade<SUP>1</SUP><SUP>,2</SUP>, R Hutchinson<SUP>1</SUP><SUP>,2</SUP>, K Van Zile<SUP>1</SUP><SUP>,2</SUP>, D Bodager<SUP>1</SUP><SUP>,2</SUP>, R Baker<SUP>3</SUP>, C Blackmore (
- Florida Department of Health Bureau of Environmental Health Medicine, United States
- Food and Waterborne Disease Program, United States
- Florida Department of Health Bureau of Laboratories, United States
Citation style for this article: Onifade TM, Hutchinson R, Van Zile K, Bodager D, Baker R, Blackmore C. Toxin producing Vibrio cholerae O75 outbreak, United States, March to April 2011. Euro Surveill. 2011;16(20):pii=19870. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/View...rticleId=19870
Date of submission: 16 May 2011 <HR>The Florida Department of Health, Florida, United States, is investigating a Vibrio cholerae O75 outbreak. Ten cases with disease onsets from 23 March to 13 April 2011, presented with gastrointestinal symptoms of diarrhoea, nausea, vomiting, cramps, chills, and/or fever, after consuming raw or lightly cooked oysters harvested from Apalachicola Bay, Florida. Symptoms were milder than those during outbreaks of epidemic (serogroup O1 and O139) Vibrio cholerae; no case required rehydration treatment or hospitalisation.