Isolation of Hemagglutinative Non-El Tor Cholera Vibrios

Isolation of Hemagglutinative Non-el Tor Cholera Vibrios.

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 tes...

Technical considerations of cholera vaccines and some results of cholera - El-Tor mass immunization

Preselection of hemolytic variants of el tor vibrios.

Historically, hemolytic activity in tube tests was regarded as the sine qua non in the differentiation of El Tor from classical cholera vibrios. However, in the recent outbreaks of cholera in Southeast Asia, many strains of agglutinable vibrios have been isolated which share a large number of properties ascribed to El Tor vibrios (and not the classical variety), but which lack hemolytic activit...

Polymyxin agar as an adjunct in the isolation of El Tor vibrios.

FRI Briefings Non-Cholera Vibrios

Oyster beds in Galveston Bay, Texas, were closed to harvesting during most of the summer of 1998 because 416 persons in 13 states fell ill after eating raw oysters traced to this location (21). Then, just as these shellfish beds appeared to be safe again, New York authorities forbade the harvest of clams and oysters from beds near Long Island in mid-September, after 10 people became ill from ea...