Fact sheets

Cholera fact sheet (PDF 196KB)

Public Health action

• Therapeutic Guidelines: Antibiotic. Therapeutic Guidelines Limited: Melbourne

• Australian Immunisation Handbook

• Communicable Disease Guidelines for teachers, child care workers, local government authorities and medical practitioners. Department of Health, Western Australia

• OD 0103/08 Public Health Intervention for Sporadic Enteric Notifications

• OD 0101/08 Exclusion Guidelines for Patients with Enteric Infections and Their Contacts.

Notifiable disease data and reports

• Up-to-date Cholera notification data

• General infectious disease reports  

Additional sources of information

• Control of Communicable Diseases Manual  

Exclusion

Exclude food handlers, health and child care workers from work until asymptomatic for 24 hours and two consecutive negative faecal specimens collected at least 24 hours apart.
Other cases should be excluded from work, school, child care and other situations where disease transmission may occur for 24 hours after case becomes asymptomatic and has formed stools.
Enteric precaution for hospitalised or intitutionalised patients

Case definition

Only confirmed cases should be notified.

Confirmed case

A confirmed case requires laboratory definitive evidence only.

Laboratory definitive evidence

Isolation of toxigenic Vibrio cholerae O1 or O139.