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PART 8: Infectious Diseases
SECTION 6   Diseases Caused by Gram-Negative Bacteria

156 Cholera and Other Vibrioses
Matthew K. Waldor / Edward T. Ryan

Figure 156-1  World distribution of cholera in 2009. (Adapted from WHO: Cholera, 2009.)
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Figure 156-2  Spread of Vibrio cholerae O1 in the Americas, 1991–1994. (Courtesy of Dr. Robert V. Tauxe, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta; with permission.)
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Figure 156-3  Spread of Vibrio cholerae O139 in the Indian subcontinent and elsewhere in Asia, 1992–1994. (Courtesy of Dr. Robert V. Tauxe, CDC, Atlanta; with permission.)
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Figure 156-4  Rice water cholera stool. Note floating mucus and gray watery appearance. (Courtesy of Dr. ASG Faruque, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka; with permission.)
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