Tetracycline is the primary antibiotic for this illness. However, antibiotics are not enough and the primary treatment of this illness is oral rehydration therapy.
Tetracycline is the primary antibiotic for this illness. However, antibiotics are not enough and the primary treatment of this illness is oral rehydration therapy. The illness itself is due to a gram-negative strain of bacteria that produces its namesake toxin and enterotoxin which attacks the mucosal epithelium of the small intestine which results in severe diarrhea; the primary symptom. Other symptoms include pale fluid stools and dramatic fluid loss. First isolated by Filippo Pacini in 1854, FTP, identify this disease whose most recent pandemic killed 16,000 in Zimbabwe in fall 2008.
Tetracycline is the primary antibiotic for this illness. However, antibiotics are not enough and the primary treatment of this illness is oral rehydration therapy.
Cholera