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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, Jan 1997, 284-285, Vol 35, No. 1
Copyright © 1997 by the American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Cholera from raw seaweed transported from the Philippines to California

DJ Vugia, AM Shefer, J Douglas, KD Greene, RG Bryant and SB Werner
Division of Communicable Disease Control, California Department of Health Services, Berkeley 94704, USA.

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.

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