TY - JOUR
T1 - Factores ambientales vinculados con la aparición y dispersió n de las epidemias de vibrio en América del Sur
AU - Gavilán, R.G.
AU - Martínez-Urtaza, J.
PY - 2011/3/1
Y1 - 2011/3/1
N2 - Vibrio cholerae and V. parahaemolyticus are the two Vibrio species with a major impact on human health. Diseases caused by both pathogens are acquiring increasing relevance due to their expansion at global scale. In this paper, we resume the ecological aspects associated with the arrival and spreading of infections caused by V. parahaemolyticus and V. cholerae in Peru from a South American perspective. Moreover, we discuss the similarities in the emergence in Peru of cholera cases in 1991 and V. parahaemolyticus infections in 1997. These constituted exceptional experiments to evaluate the relationships between the Vibrio epidemics and changes in the environment. The epidemic radiations of V. cholerae and V. parahaemolyticus constitute to clear examples supporting the oceanic dispersion of pathogenic vibrios and have enabled the identifcation of El Niño events as a potential mechanism for the spreading of diseases through the ocean.
AB - Vibrio cholerae and V. parahaemolyticus are the two Vibrio species with a major impact on human health. Diseases caused by both pathogens are acquiring increasing relevance due to their expansion at global scale. In this paper, we resume the ecological aspects associated with the arrival and spreading of infections caused by V. parahaemolyticus and V. cholerae in Peru from a South American perspective. Moreover, we discuss the similarities in the emergence in Peru of cholera cases in 1991 and V. parahaemolyticus infections in 1997. These constituted exceptional experiments to evaluate the relationships between the Vibrio epidemics and changes in the environment. The epidemic radiations of V. cholerae and V. parahaemolyticus constitute to clear examples supporting the oceanic dispersion of pathogenic vibrios and have enabled the identifcation of El Niño events as a potential mechanism for the spreading of diseases through the ocean.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79955930824&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1726-46342011000100017
U2 - 10.1590/S1726-46342011000100017
DO - 10.1590/S1726-46342011000100017
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79955930824
SN - 1726-4634
VL - 28
SP - 109
EP - 115
JO - Revista Peruana de Medicina de Experimental y Salud Publica
JF - Revista Peruana de Medicina de Experimental y Salud Publica
IS - 1
ER -