title: Toxin producing Vibrio cholerae O75 outbreak, United States, March to April 2011.
abstract: The Florida Department of Health, Florida, United States, is investigating a Vibrio cholerae O75 outbreak. Ten cases with disease onsets from 23 March to 13 April 2011, presented with gastrointestinal symptoms of diarrhoea, nausea, vomiting, cramps, chills, and/or fever, after consuming raw or lightly cooked oysters harvested from Apalachicola Bay, Florida. Symptoms were milder than those during outbreaks of epidemic (serogroup O1 and O139) Vibrio cholerae; no case required rehydration treatment or hospitalisation.
authors: Florida Department of Health Bureau of Environmental Health Medicine, USA.
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authors: Onifade
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authors: Hutchinson
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authors: Van Zile
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authors: Bodager
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authors: Baker
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authors: Blackmore