Cholera with severe renal failure in an Italian tourist returning from Cuba, July 2013

Euro Surveill. 2013 Aug 29;18(35):20572. doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.es2013.18.35.20572.

Abstract

In July 2013, an Italian tourist returning from Cuba was hospitalised in Trieste, Italy, for cholera caused by Vibrio cholerae O1 serotype Ogawa with severe renal failure. An outbreak of cholera was reported in Cuba in January 2013. Physicians should consider the diagnosis of cholera in travellers returning from Cuba presenting with acute watery diarrhoea.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Cholera / diagnosis*
  • Cholera / therapy
  • Cuba
  • Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
  • Feces / microbiology
  • Genotype
  • Humans
  • Infusions, Intravenous
  • Italy
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Renal Insufficiency / complications*
  • Travel
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Vibrio cholerae O1 / genetics
  • Vibrio cholerae O1 / isolation & purification*