Bacteriological Study of Stools of 746 Clinical Cholera Cases in Calcutta
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cases which in general symptomatology and clinical features could not be distinguished from cases of true cholera confirmed by laboratory findings. But when the stools of such cases were examined bacteriologically they gave persistently negative results and thus stood in marked contrast to another group of cases investigated in the same field almost about the same time. In the latter group Koch's comma vibrios were found to be the etiological factor and were isolated from all cases without much difficulty.
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دوره 60 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2016