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Survival and Virulence of Vibrio Cholerae Biotypes Effect Physico-Chemical Parameters

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Title Survival and Virulence of Vibrio Cholerae Biotypes Effect Physico-Chemical Parameters
 
Creator Chaudhuri, Sohini
 
Subject Infectious Diseases and Immunology
 
Description Cholera (frequently called Asiatic cholera or epidemic cholera) is a severe diarrheal disease caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. Transmission to humans is by water or food. The natural reservoir of the organism is not known. It was long assumed to be humans, but some evidence suggests that it is the aquatic environment. The idea that the clinical manifestation of cholera is due to a toxin really has its root in the writing of John Snow, who provided convincing epidemiologic evidence for the role of piped Thames River water in the transmission of cholera during the London epidemic (Snow, 1885). Nearly thirty years later, Robert Koch reported of the cholera bacillus from pond water during a cholera outbreak, leading bacteriologic plausibility to water-borne cholera
transmission (Koch, 1884) and identified Vibrio cholerae as the causative agent of cholera. Cholera is one of the most ancient human afflictions that have been described in
Arabian, Hindu, Greek and Roman texts over 2,500 years ago. Illness and death due to dehydrating diarrhoea and vomiting can be recognized in the writing of Susruta, Galen
and Wang-Shooho. Accounts of cholera-like diseases go back to the times of Hippocrates and Lord Buddha (Barua, 1992). Hippocrates was the first to use the term cholera which probably originates from Greek word(gut) or from the word
meaning gutter (Barua, 1992; Pollitzer, 1909). Both words give a very suitable description of the main symptoms of the disease cholera, severe diarrhea and vomiting.
Alternatively, the word cholera could be a concentration of the Greek words(bile) and(to flow), although there is no bile in the vomit (Barua, 1992). A fourth explanation is that the term cholera is derived from the Hebrew, meaning “bad disease”
 
Date 2007
 
Type Thesis
NonPeerReviewed
 
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Identifier http://www.eprints.iicb.res.in/1594/1/Sohini_PDF_TH20.pdf
Chaudhuri, Sohini (2007) Survival and Virulence of Vibrio Cholerae Biotypes Effect Physico-Chemical Parameters. PhD thesis, Jadavpur University.
 
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