Cholera

Vibriones cholerae

Cholera (Graece: χολέρα) (ICD-10: A00) est morbus intestini tenuis, a bacterio Vibrione cholerae effectus, quod anno 1854 a Philippo Pacini, medico Italico, repertum est.

Hic morbus graves vomitus et magnum alvi profluvium concitat, quae sine cura causa mortis esse possunt.

In medicina antiqua cholera (vel potius chole = fel) unus ex quattuor humoribus habebatur.

Cholerae victimae

• Ioannes Breugelius senior (1625)
• Carolus X (rex Franciae)
• Carolus Philippus Amadeus de Clausewitz
• Georgius Gulielmus Fridericus Hegel
• Iacobus Knox Polk

Bibliographia

• Colwell R. R. (December 1996). "Global climate and infectious disease: the cholera paradigm". Science 274 (5295): 2025–31 
• Drasar, B. S.; Forrest, Bruce D., eds. (1996). Cholera and the ecology of Vibrio cholerae. Springer. p. 355. ISBN 0-412-61220-8 
• Echenberg, Myron. 2011. Africa in the Time of Cholera: A History of Pandemics from 1817 to the Present. Novi Eboraci: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-18820-3.
• Furuque, Shah M.; Nair, G. Balakrish, eds. (2008). Vibrio Cholerae: Genomics and Molecular Biology. Horizon Scientific Press. p. 218. ISBN 1-904455-33-6 
• Gilbert, Pamela K. (2008). Cholera and Nation: Doctoring the Social Body in Victorian England. SUNY Press. p. 231. ISBN 0-7914-7343-0 
• Jermyn, William S.; O'Shea, Yvonne A.; Quirke, Anne Marie; Boyd, E. Fidelma (2006). "Genomics and the Evolution of Pathogenic Vibrio Cholerae". In Chan, Voon L.; Sherman, Philip M.; Bourke, Billy. Bacterial genomes and infectious diseases. Humana Press. p. 270. ISBN 1-58829-496-X 
• Johnson, Steven (2006). The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (1854 epidemic). Riverhead Hardcover. ISBN 1-59448-925-4 
• Mintz E. D., et R. L. Guerrant (March 2009). "A lion in our village--the unconscionable tragedy of cholera in Africa". N. Engl. J. Med. 360 (11): 1060–3 
• Pardio Sedas, Violeta T. (2008). "Impact of Climate and Environmental Factors on the Epidemiology of Vibrio choerae in Aquatic Ecosystems". In Hofer, Tobias N.. Marine Pollution: New Research. Nova Science publishers. p. 448. pp. 221–254. ISBN 1-60456-242-0 
• Ryan, Kenneth J.; Ray, C. George, eds. (2003). Sherris medical microbiology: an introduction to infectious diseases (4th ed.). ISBN 0-8385-8529-9 
• Wachsmuth, Kaye; Blake, Paul A.; Olsvik, Ørjan, eds. (1994). Vibrio cholerae and cholera: molecular to global perspectives. ASM Press. p. 465. ISBN 1-55581-067-5 

Nexus externi

Vicimedia Communia plura habent quae ad choleram spectant.

Vide choleram in Victionario.

• Cholera, www.who.int (World Health Organization)
• "The Attenuation of the Causal Agent of Fowl Cholera," Ludovici Pasteur, 1880, www.pasteurbrewing.com
• What is Cholera? www.cdc.gov (CVenters for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Cholera Epidemic in NYC in 1832, www.nytimes.com (New York Times), 15 Aprilis 2008
• The Cholera Timebomb in The DRC, www.thefirstpost.co.uk (The First Post)

Notae

Haec stipula ad medicinam spectat. Amplifica, si potes!