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Ann Biol Clin (Paris)
April 2020
Laboratoire Laborizon Maine Anjou, Le Mans, France.
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.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMed Pregl
May 2011
Infektivno odeljenje, Zdravstveni centar Studenica, Kraljevo.
History: Cholera is an acute intestinal infection which raged in India in the nineteenth century and it broke out in six great pandemics out in Europe.
Etiology: Cholera is caused by bacteria Vibrio cholerae, which produce an enterotoxin causing massive diarrhoea. There are two biotypes--classic and El Tor.
FEMS Microbiol Lett
September 2002
Unité du Choléra et des Vibrions, Centre National de Référence des Vibrions et du Choléra, Institut Pasteur, 25 rue du Dr Roux, 75 724 Cedex 15, Paris, France.
We compared the efficiencies of biochemical methods and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for the identification of Vibrio parahaemolyticus strains. The 122 isolates studied, identified by biochemical tests as V. parahaemolyticus or Vibrio alginolyticus, were tested by R72H PCR assay.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe information about the vitality of the plaque is limited. Only motile bacteria can be distinguished as alive. Vital staining allows to differentiate between living nonmotile rods and dead, previously motile rods.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTetracycline, streptomycin and monomycin resistant variants of the cholera and NAG-vibrios were obtained by means of repeated passages on nutrient media with increasing concentrations of the antibiotics (114 variants V. cholerae asiaticae, 1337 variants of V. cholerae eltor and 299 variants of NAG-vibrios of the 1st Heiberg group).
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