Global climate and infectious disease: the cholera paradigm

RR Colwell - Science, 1996 - science.org
The origin of cholera has been elusive, even though scientific evidence clearly shows it is a
waterborne disease. However, standard bacteriological procedures for isolation of the …

Climate and infectious disease: Use of remote sensing for detection of Vibrio cholerae by indirect measurement

B Lobitz, L Beck, A Huq, B Wood… - Proceedings of the …, 2000 - National Acad Sciences
It has long been known that cholera outbreaks can be initiated when Vibrio cholerae, the
bacterium that causes cholera, is present in drinking water in sufficient numbers to constitute …

Marine ecosystems and cholera

R Colwell, A Huq - The ecology and etiology of newly emerging marine …, 2001 - Springer
Historically, most of the major epidemics or outbreaks of cholera around the world have
originated in coastal regions. The most dramatic of recent outbreaks of cholera occurred in …

[HTML][HTML] Cholera and climate: a demonstrated relationship

R Rita - Transactions of the American Clinical and …, 2009 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Vibrio cholerae, the causative agent of cholera, is naturally present in the environment and
autochthonous to coastal and estuarine ecosystems. V. cholerae is associated with …

Integrated view of Vibrio cholerae in the Americas

D Domman, ML Quilici, MJ Dorman, E Njamkepo… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Latin America has experienced two of the largest cholera epidemics in modern history; one
in 1991 and the other in 2010. However, confusion still surrounds the relationships between …

Epidemic cholera in the new world: translating field epidemiology into new prevention strategies.

RV Tauxe, ED Mintz, RE Quick - Emerging Infectious Diseases, 1995 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cholera, a devastating diarrheal disease, has swept through the world in recurrent
pandemics since 1817. The seventh and ongoing pandemic began in 1961 when the El Tor …

Environmental reservoirs of Vibrio cholerae and their role in cholera

L Vezzulli, C Pruzzo, A Huq… - Environmental …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
In the aquatic environment, Vibrio cholerae has been reported to be associated with a
variety of living organisms, including animals with an exoskeleton of chitin, aquatic plants …

Cholera in coastal Africa: a systematic review of its heterogeneous environmental determinants

S Rebaudet, B Sudre, B Faucher… - The Journal of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
According to the “cholera paradigm,” epidemiology of this prototypical waterborne disease is
considered to be driven directly by climate-induced variations in coastal aquatic reservoirs of …

Cholera: environmental reservoirs and impact on disease transmission

S Almagro-Moreno, RK Taylor - Microbiology spectrum, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
Vibrio cholerae is widely known to be the etiological agent of the life-threatening diarrheal
disease cholera. Cholera remains a major scourge in many developing countries, infecting …

Pandemics, pathogenicity and changing molecular epidemiology of cholera in the era of global warming

FR Chowdhury, Z Nur, N Hassan… - Annals of clinical …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Background Vibrio cholerae, a Gram-negative, non-spore forming curved rod is
found in diverse aquatic ecosystems around the planet. It is classified according to its major …