Treatment of cholera is a particularly dangerous disease due to the constant release of infectious microorganisms into the environment. Serums are a preventive and therapeutic drug for cholera. They contain specific antibodies to the causative agent of cholera. Under the influence of pathogenic bacteria, drugs produce a specific antitoxic serum. After the drug is introduced into the body, antibodies actively begin to form and compensate for the deficiency of immunoglobulin, preventing the development of complications of the disease.
Cholera serum comes in two types: monovalent, which contains one anti-cholera antibody, and polyvalent, which contains two or three antibodies at once. These types of vaccines are used depending on the type of cholera being treated. For each type of cholera pathogen, a specific type of vaccination is selected. There are also antibiotics containing bactericidal inhibitors.