Sentences with word «cholera»

Recently an outbreak of cholera in Haiti brought public attention to this deadly disease.

Satellite imaging can also help warn of cholera outbreaks, which are predicted to worsen with climate change.

Emergence of novel strain of Vibrio cholerae with epidemic potential in southern and eastern India.

In the image above, red - stained V. cholerae bacteria (right) exhibit the shape - changing protein (stained green), which the researchers named CrvA.

Each month between October 1997 and June 2000 they mapped the distribution of V. cholerae in seawater and in zooplankton (including copepods) in four sites off the coast of Peru and also measured many environmental factors.

Potentiation by cholera toxin of bradykinin - induced inositol phosphate production in the osteoblast - like cell line MC3T3 - E1

The finding has implications for cholera vaccines.

The harsh reality is that waterborne diseases are linked to floods — and with cholera outbreaks reported in the northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, this flooding event seems to be no exception.

A new study delineates a sequential pattern of changes in the intestinal microbial population of patients recovering from cholera in Bangladesh, findings that may point to ways of speeding recovery from the dangerous diarrheal disease.

Dutch researchers say the new strain arose when the bacterium that usually causes cholera borrowed genes from a normally harmless strain.

Unfortunately, the water's temperature and salinity provide a perfect incubator for cholera bacteria, and a disease never recorded before in Haiti has now attacked 700,000 people and killed 8500.

Baindlas were priests assisting at dalit festivals and sometimes at sacrifices for the whole village when epidemics like cholera visit the village.

Anthrax poisonings, as well as cholera infections, work in part by disrupting the normal transport mechanisms of proteins.

So when a large number of cholera cases caused by a new strain named O139 started turning up in India, WHO officials were understandably alarmed.

Professor Nick Thomson, senior author from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said: «These findings have implications for the control of cholera pandemics.

Better sanitation is imperative in the fight against cholera in Haiti & ndash particularly as a strain impervious to proposed vaccinations has been found

Jašarević noted that «in an outbreak setting, the impact of [oral cholera vaccine] is greatest when used to protect communities that are not yet affected.

* Human Gut Microbiota Predicts Susceptibility to Vibrio cholerae Infection — Firas S Midani — The Journal of Infectious Disease

«Modelling the effect of vaccines on cholera transmission.»

Satellite images of warmer water (red) may indicate when cholera epidemics are likely to strike.

The results of two studies, published in Science, present a new «rule - book» to estimate the risk of different cholera strains causing an epidemic.

Aid groups in Haiti are optimistic that they can keep a fast - spreading cholera epidemic out of the capital city of Port au Prince.

A few years ago, I began researching a project about cholera in the 19th century, and I stumbled across a Web site devoted to the legendary doctor and epidemiologist John Snow.

«We don't completely understand why those species occur during cholera infection, but that phenomenon may offer clues as to why we observe different species of gut bacteria among humans in different parts of the world.

«The phages clearly have gained the upper hand, and studying how they do it can eventually open the door for treating cholera with phages.»

Cholera is an intestinal infection that is caused by a bacteria called Vibrio cholerae which is found in contaminated water in places with contaminated water and poor sanitation.

When in doubt, it is better to purchase a bottle of water, than to risk contracting cholera or dysentery.

The WHO says spending on sanitation must prioritise «hotspots» where cholera lurks all the time.

She spent Rs 84,000 for treatment of cholera at a well - known hospital in Mumbai that didn't offer a cashless claim settlement.

Yes, but not cholera.

An international medical humanitarian organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), on Friday said it had scaled up its activities to control cholera outbreak in Bauchi.

«Earlier this year, MSF conducted a large oral cholera vaccination campaign to prevent an epidemic that could potentially strike that already very vulnerable population.»

A few cases of cholera occur in Baghdad area each year, but strict health controls quickly stamp them out.

In a 1970s University of Maryland cholera study, this man needed 26 liters of intravenous electrolytes to replace lost fluids.

Initial testing suggested an infectious bacterial disease such as avian cholera caused the deaths, but findings released on Tuesday showed West Nile virus was the culprit, McFarlane said.

A woman in Florida has been diagnosed with cholera after returning from visiting her family in Haiti.

This is because while many adults in areas where there have been V. cholerae O1 epidemics have developed some immunity to this strain, they lack immunity to the new O139 vibrio.

Then cholera broke out because of dirty water.

If you have ever consumed Shreddies or Oysterettes, Old Forester or Early Times, if you have used aureomycin hog cholera vaccine, or if you have ever bought a water - jet massager for your gums, you have been under the influence of Loewy / Snaith.

It appears that the routes of transmission of V. cholerae O139 are the same as for the O1 vibrio.

The camp was also blamed in a leaked epidemiological report by a French cholera expert, Renaud Piarroux of the University of the Mediterranean in Marseille, written at the request of the Haitian government.

Nor are negative water tests conclusive: cholera researchers say the bacteria are hard to find in fast - flowing rivers.

Somehow, the tiny phages sneaked in and overpowered the much larger cholera cells, using a big chunk of this stolen immune system.

They feared a new cholera pandemic, and researchers around the world scrambled to find the source of this dangerous new pathogen.

The results of two studies, published in Science (10 November), present a new «rule - book» to estimate the risk of different cholera strains causing an epidemic.

The researchers» six - stage story of how the seventh cholera pandemic evolved into its modern form around the Middle East and Asia.