Isolation of sucrose late-fermenting and nonfermenting variants of Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal: implications for diagnosis of cholera.

doi:10.1128/jcm.33.5.1339-1340.1995

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Isolation of sucrose late-fermenting and nonfermenting variants of Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal: implications for diagnosis of cholera.

Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 May 1995

Ansaruzzaman M, Rahman M, Kibriya A K, Bhuiyan N A, Islam M S, Albert M J

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The sucrose-containing selective medium thiosulfate-citrate-bile salt-sucrose agar missed a sucrose nonfermenting and four sucrose late-fermenting variant strains of Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal from diarrheal stools. These strains were, however, correctly identified as V. cholerae O139 on a sucro...

Topics

Cholera
Culture Media
Fermentation
Genetic Variation
Humans
Kinetics
Sucrose
Vibrio cholerae

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