Vugia D J, Shefer A M, Douglas J, Greene K D, Bryant R G, Werner S B
Division of Communicable Disease Control, California Department of Health Services, Berkeley 94704, USA.
J Clin Microbiol. 1997 Jan;35(1):284-5. doi: 10.1128/jcm.35.1.284-285.1997.
In March 1994, a California woman without any recent travel developed acute, profuse, watery diarrhea. Her astute physician diagnosed cholera after ordering the appropriate stool culture, and the patient improved on an oral antibiotic. Epidemiologic investigation implicated seaweed from the Philippines that was transported by a friend to California and subsequently eaten raw as the vehicle of infection.
1994年3月,一名近期无外出旅行史的加利福尼亚女性出现急性、大量水样腹泻。她敏锐的医生在进行了适当的粪便培养后诊断为霍乱,患者经口服抗生素治疗后病情好转。流行病学调查表明,由一名朋友从菲律宾运来并随后被生食的海藻是感染源。