Pre-earthquake non-epidemic Vibrio cholerae in Haiti

Jie Liu; Christopher Winstead-Derlega; Eric Houpt; Rebecca Heidkamp; Jean Pape; Rebecca Dillingham

doi:10.3855/jidc.4524

Pre-earthquake non-epidemic Vibrio cholerae in Haiti

Jie Liu, Christopher Winstead-Derlega, Eric Houpt, Rebecca Heidkamp, Jean Pape, Rebecca Dillingham

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Introduction: To our knowledge, there was no record of Vibrio cholerae in Haiti until the 2010 post earthquake outbreak. Methodology: This study describes the analysis of 301 stool samples from 117 infants in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, who participated in a pediatric nutrition study between July 2008 and October 2009. Results: Nine samples were identified positive with both SYBR Green and Taqman-MGB probe based molecular assays targeting V. cholerae hlyA and toxR, respectively (Ct = 33 - 40), but none were O1 or O139. Conclusions: Our results from multiple molecular assays demonstrate the presence of non-O1/O139 V. cholerae DNA in stools collected from nine asymptomatic Haitian infants two years prior to the 2010 earthquake.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	120-122
Number of pages	3
Journal	Journal of infection in developing countries
Volume	8
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3855/jidc.4524
State	Published - Jan 2014
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Epidemic
Haiti
Microbiology
V. cholerae

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Parasitology
Microbiology
Infectious Diseases
Virology

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