cholera

Details

Instance of

type of disease

Subclass of

intestinal infectious disease, waterborne disease, primary bacterial infectious disease, anthroponotic disease, vibrio infectious disease, pandemic and epidemic-prone diseases

Part of

infectious disease

described by source

Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus, Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition

disease transmission process

food-borne transmission, fecal–oral route, water-borne transmission

has cause

Vibrio cholerae

has effect

third cholera pandemic, 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak, first cholera pandemic, second cholera pandemic, fifth cholera pandemic, fourth cholera pandemic, sixth cholera pandemic, Seventh cholera pandemic

health specialty

infectious diseases, emergency medicine

ICD-9-CM

001.0, 001, 001.9

maximal incubation period in humans

72

medical examination

physical examination, microbiological culture, complete blood count, rapid diagnostic test, polymerase chain reaction

minimal incubation period in humans

12

number of cases

190549

possible treatment

oral rehydration therapy, intravenous fluid replacement, Antibiotics and Chemotherapy, vaccine

subject named as

Cholera

symptoms and signs

diarrhea, vomiting, dehydration, hypovolemia, spasm, discomfort, hypotension, oliguria, cyanosis, terminal dehydration, thirst, muscle cramp

topic's main category

Category:Cholera

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