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Cholera (Case Mx (Exclusion: for priority cases, exclude until 2 x…
Cholera
Case Mx
Exclusion: for priority cases, exclude until 2 x negative stool specimens 24 hr apart. For children, exclude from school until at least 24 hr since last bowel movement
Education: hand hygeine, wash linen/towels
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Contact mx
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Surveillance of contacts for 5 days from last exposure using faecal samples (if asx and high risk occupation)> if not high risk occupation, only need to provide 1 faecal specimen
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Water borne and food-borne bacterium, person-to-person rare
Profuse, watery diarrhea. Most severe in young, elderly, IC as causes rapid dehydration, acidosis, circulatory collapse.
Epi in Aus: rare in Aus, single case in a person w/o overseas travel is an OB
Priority cases = food handlers, HCWs, childcare workers and children in childcare
Vibrio cholerae, GNB, more than 150 serotypes. Serogroups of O1 and O139 of interest as they secrete enterotoxin
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