Isolation of Hemagglutinative Non-El Tor Cholera Vibrios
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CONTENT ALERTS Receive: RSS Feeds, eTOCs, free email alerts (when new articles cite this article), more» Information about commercial reprint orders: http://jb.asm.org/site/misc/reprints.xhtml To subscribe to to another ASM Journal go to: http://journals.asm.org/site/subscriptions/ JOURNAL OF BACrERIOLOGY, Mar., 1965 Copyright © 1965 American Society for Microbiology Vol. 89, No. 3 Printed in U.S.A. S. RIZVII, M. I. HUQ, AND A. S. BENENSON Pakistan-SEATO Cholera Research Laboratory, Dacca, East Pakistan Received for publication 30 October 1964 During 1963, El Tor cholera spread through Thailand and Burma, and finally appeared in the Chittagong area of East Pakistan in November (Yen et al., East Pakistan MIed. J. 8:22, 1964). With disease caused by the El Tor vibrio within 80 km of areas under study by this laboratory, all vibrio isolates which agglutinated in cholera antisera were screened by the chicken erythrocyte agglutination test proposed by Finkelstein and AIukerjee (Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol. M1ed. 112:355, 1963) to differentiate El Tor from classic cholera vibrios. On 10 January 1964, rectal swabs were received in alkaline tellurite bile peptone broth from six individuals with presumed cholera. These swabs had been obtained by a government health visitor on 6 January from a village adjacent to the vaccine