Cholera Outbreaks

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Nair, G. Balakrish (Editor), Takeda, Yoshifumi (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, 379
• Subjects: Medicine.; Medical microbiology.; Vaccines.; Infectious diseases.; Epidemiology.; Biomedicine.; Medical Microbiology.; Infectious Diseases.; Vaccine.

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...