A Maryland woman was hospitalized with dehydration; Vibrio cholerae were isolate

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A Maryland woman was hospitalized with dehydration; Vibrio cholerae were isolated from the patient. She had neither traveled outside the United States nor eaten raw shellfish during the preceding month. She had attended a party 2 days before her hospitalization. Two other people at the party had acute diarrheal illness and elevated levels of serum antibodies against Vibrio. Everyone at the party ate crabs and rice pudding with coconut milk. Crabs left over from this party were served at a second party. One of the 20 people at the second party had onset of mild diarrhea; specimens from 14 of these people were negative for vibriocidal antibodies. What kind of transmission is described above? (2) Describe the mechanism Vibrio cholera uses to cause diarrhea. (2)

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1)The kind of transmission described above is vehicle transmission.

Vehicle transmission: In this situation, a vehicle that is, an inanimate object or material called in scientific terms a "fomite", becomes contaminated with the infectious agent.

2)The mechanism vibrio cholera uses to cause diarrhea is crabs .

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