Volume 9, Number 9, September 2003

Reemergence of Epidemic Vibrio cholerae O139, Bangladesh

Shah M. Faruque,* Nityananda Chowdhury,* M. Kamruzzaman,* Q. Shafi Ahmad,* A.S.G. Faruque,* M. Abdus Salam,* T. Ramamurthy,† G. Balakrish Nair,* Andrej Weintraub,‡ and David A. Sack*
*International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh; †National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Beliaghata, Calcutta, India; and ‡Karolinska Instute, Huddinge, Sweden

Figure 1. Numbers of diarrhea patients with cholera attributed to Vibrio cholerae O1 and O139 from January 2001 to June 2002. Those positive for cholera are extrapolated from a 2% sample of all patients receiving treatment.

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