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Vibrio cholerae 01 isolated in the gallbladder of a patient presenting with cholecystitis
D S Asnis1, R Golub, A Bresciani
1Department of Internal Medicine, Flushing Hospital Medical Center, New York, USA.
The American Journal of Gastroenterology
|October 1, 1996
Abstract:
Cholera is a topical infection of the intestinal tract and rarely causes extraintestinal disease. The gallbladder has been proposed to be the reservoir of this organism. We present a patient from Bolivia who developed symptoms of acute cholecystitis and whose bile culture grew Vibrio cholerae 01 El tor.