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Cholera Outbreaks

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Editors:
  1. G. Balakrish Nair

    1. Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Gurgaon, India

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  2. Yoshifumi Takeda

    1. National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

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  • Provides a better understanding of cholera outbreaks - a prerequisite to prevent them
  • Written by leading authorities in the field
  • Richly illustrated
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology (CT MICROBIOLOGY, volume 379)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Cholera Outbreaks in the Classical Biotype Era

    • A. K. Siddique, Richard Cash
    Pages 1-16

  3. Cholera Outbreaks in the El Tor Biotype Era and the Impact of the New El Tor Variants

    • Asish K. Mukhopadhyay, Yoshifumi Takeda, G. Balakrish Nair
    Pages 17-47

  4. Cholera Outbreaks in India

    • Thandavarayan Ramamurthy, Naresh C. Sharma
    Pages 49-85

  5. Cholera Outbreaks in South-East Asia

    • Kaushik Bharati, S. K. Bhattacharya
    Pages 87-116

  6. Cholera Outbreaks in Africa

    • Martin A. Mengel, Isabelle Delrieu, Leonard Heyerdahl, Bradford D. Gessner
    Pages 117-144

  7. The Cholera Outbreak in Haiti: Where and How did it begin?

    • Daniele Lantagne, G. Balakrish Nair, Claudio F. Lanata, Alejandro Cravioto
    Pages 145-164

  8. Role of Phages in the Epidemiology of Cholera

    • Shah M. Faruque
    Pages 165-180

  9. Circulation and Transmission of Clones of Vibrio cholerae During Cholera Outbreaks

    • O. Colin Stine, J. Glenn Morris Jr.
    Pages 181-193

  10. Modeling Cholera Outbreaks

    • Dennis L. Chao, Ira M. Longini Jr., J. Glenn Morris Jr.
    Pages 195-209

  11. Genomic Science in Understanding Cholera Outbreaks and Evolution of Vibrio cholerae as a Human Pathogen

    • William P. Robins, John J. Mekalanos
    Pages 211-229

  12. When, How, and Where can Oral Cholera Vaccines be Used to Interrupt Cholera Outbreaks?

    • John Clemens, Jan Holmgren
    Pages 231-258

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 259-263
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About this book

The most feared attribute of the human pathogen Vibrio cholerae is its ability to cause outbreaks that spread like wildfire, completely overwhelming public health systems and causing widespread suffering and death. This volume starts with a description of the contrasting patterns of outbreaks caused by the classical and El Tor biotypes of V. cholerae. Subsequent chapters examine cholera outbreaks in detail, including possible sources of infection and molecular epidemiology on three different continents, the emergence of new clones through the bactericidal selection process of lytic cholera phages, the circulation and transmission of clones of the pathogen during outbreaks and novel approaches to modeling cholera outbreaks. A further contribution deals with the application of the genomic sciences to trace the spread of cholera epidemics and how this information can be used to control cholera outbreaks. The book closes with an analysis of the potential use of killed oralcholera vaccines to stop the spread of cholera outbreaks.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Gurgaon, India

    G. Balakrish Nair

  • National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

    Yoshifumi Takeda

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cholera Outbreaks

  • Editors: G. Balakrish Nair, Yoshifumi Takeda

  • Series Title: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55404-9

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-55403-2Published: 03 July 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-52271-4Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-55404-9Published: 13 June 2014

  • Series ISSN: 0070-217X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2196-9965

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 263

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Medical Microbiology, Infectious Diseases, Vaccine, Epidemiology

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