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

M Mascarello; M L Deiana; C Maurel; C Lucarelli; I Luzzi; R Luzzati

doi:10.2807/1560-7917.ES2013.18.35.20572

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Cholera with severe renal failure in an Italian tourist returning from Cuba, July 2013
M Mascarello¹ , M L Deiana² , C Maurel¹ , C Lucarelli³ , I Luzzi³ , R Luzzati¹
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Affiliations: ¹ Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital of Trieste, Trieste, Italy ² Department of Microbiology, Hospital of Trieste, Trieste, Italy ³ Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

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Citation style for this article: Mascarello M, Deiana M L, Maurel C, Lucarelli C, Luzzi I, Luzzati R. Cholera with severe renal failure in an Italian tourist returning from Cuba, July 2013. Euro Surveill. 2013;18(35):pii=20572. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES2013.18.35.20572 Received: 21 Aug 2013

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.