V. cholerae 01 outbreak in remote villages of Shimla district, Himachal Pradesh, 1994
Bora, D.; Dhariwal, A.C.; Jain, D.C.; Sachdeva, V.; Vohra, J.G.; Prakash, R.M.; Datta, K.K.; Sharma, R.S.
Journal of Communicable Diseases 29(2): 121-125
1997
ISSN/ISBN: 0019-5138 PMID: 9282510 Document Number: 482846
An outbreak of V. cholerae 01 occurred in remote villages of Rohru tehsil, district Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, during June-July 1994. Seven villages were affected. Overall attack rate was 16.4 per cent in surveyed villages. Attack rate in children < 5 was significantly high. Suspected source was spring water contaminated from open air defaecation. V. cholerae was resistant to co-trimoxazole and streptomycin.