More Pathogenic Vibrios

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The Center for Disease Control, with its uniquely trained cadre of physician epidemiologists and microbiologists, continues, by its painstaking detective work, to delineate new and treatable communicable diseases. The past few years, for example, have witnessed its description of Legionnaires' disease, and its recognition of Giardia lamblia as one of the leading causes of waterborne outbreaks of diarrheal disease in the United States. Officers of the Epidemiologic Intelligence Service, on overseas assignments, have recently made major contributions in determining the role of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli and of rotaviruses in acute diarrheal illnesses in developing areas of the world. Now, in . . .