[Value of the syndromic approach for the diagnosis of an imported case of cholera].

A 70-year-old woman with no relevant medical history presented banal clinical signs of infectious gastroenteritis on her return from a trip to the Republic of the Union of Myanmar. The appearance of her stools and clinical findings were not suggestive of a typical case of cholera, but Vibrio cholerae was nevertheless isolated from her stools in the laboratory. The National reference center (NRC) for vibrios and cholera identified a Vibrio cholerae serogroup O1 (serotype Inaba) strain.