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Scientists Reveal How Cholera Bacterium Gains a Foothold in the Gut

A team of biologists at the University of York has made an important advance in our understanding of the way cholera attacks the body. The discovery could help scientists target treatments for the globally significant intestinal disease which kills more than 100,000 people ...More

2 weeks ago

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Genomics Used to Find Source of Haitian Cholera Outbreak

Employing technology that reads the entire DNA code, researchers led by the Translational Genomics Research Institute and the Technical University of Denmark have pinpointed the source of a cholera outbreak in Haiti that killed more than 6,000 people and sickened 300,000. ...More

August 23, 2011

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Researchers Fight Cholera With Computer Forecasting

Just as the rainy season is driving a new surge of cholera cases in Haiti, a new computational model could forecast where outbreaks are likely to occur. Researchers at Ohio State University are working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on the ...More

August 11, 2011

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Scientists Pinpoint River Flow Associated with Cholera Outbreaks

An examination of the world’s largest river basins found nutrient-rich and powerful river discharges led to spikes in the blooms of plankton associated with cholera outbreaks. These increased discharges often occur at times of increased temperature in coastal water, ...More

August 4, 2011

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Another Way for Cholera to Cause Disease

Cholera is a severe diarrheal disease typically caused by the O1 strain of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. All pandemic O1 strains require two critical factors to cause disease: cholera toxin (CT) and toxin coregulated pilus (TCP). However, some nonpandemic strains of V. ...More

July 21, 2011

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Haiti Cholera Epidemic Could Have Been Blunted with Use of Mobile Stockpile of Oral Vaccine

Had a large stockpile of oral cholera vaccine been available and deployed to inoculate the majority of Haitians most at risk after the outbreak following last year’s earthquake, the illness and death from the cholera epidemic could have been reduced by about half, according ...More

April 11, 2011

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Experts Develop Tool to Predict Course of Haiti's Cholera Outbreak

A new study published online in Annals of Internal Medicine outlines the path of the cholera outbreak in Haiti and identifies immediate strategies for controlling the epidemic. Control strategies are needed, as Haiti is in the midst of a cholera epidemic that has killed ...More

March 17, 2011

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Oral Vaccine Could Prevent Half of Cholera Cases, But Less Effective in Kids

Oral vaccines could prevent up to 60 percent of cholera cases in the first two years after vaccination, according to a new review of vaccine studies. The vaccines have been shown to provide protection within one month of vaccination, but data from studies of older versions ...More

March 16, 2011

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Scientists Working Toward Fast, Simple Test for Detecting Cholera

With cholera on the rampage in Haiti and almost 40 other countries, scientists are reporting the development of a key advance that could provide a fast, simple test to detect the toxin that causes the disease. The report appears in American Chemical Society's journal, ...More

February 9, 2011

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Special Sugar, Nanoparticles Combine to Detect Cholera Toxin

A complex sugar may someday become one of the most effective weapons to stop the spread of cholera, a disease that has claimed thousands of lives in Haiti since the devastating earthquake last year. A technique developed by University of Central Florida scientists would ...More

January 19, 2011

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