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  • Title: [Features of Vibrio cholerae 0:1 El Tor, Inaba serotype, isolated during the cholera epidemic in Cartagena (Colombia)].
    Author: Salim Máttar V.
    Journal: Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin; 1992 Nov; 10(9):525-30. PubMed ID: 1489792.
    Abstract:
    Cholera is an infectious transmissible disease characterized by the development of secretory diarrhea and that presents in epidemic and endemic forms. In Latin-America we are currently seen what could be the eight pandemic in cholera history, due to Vibrio cholerae 0:1 El Tor, Inaba serotype, infection. In the present preliminary study we analyze 300 patients with a clinical picture suggesting cholerae. In 250 cases, Vibrio cholerae 0:1 strains were isolated. The identification was made using mainly the following test and procedures: 1) growth in TCBS (saccharose fermentation), 2) Reactivity with sodium desoxycholate, 3) Oxidase-cytochrome test and 4) agglutination with polyvalent antisera. All isolated Vibrio cholerae strains 0:1 were sensitive to tetracycline, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, norfloxacin, ciprofloxacin and gentamicin, but were resistant to ampicillin. This report summarizes the main features of Vibrio cholerae 0:1 El Tor, Inaba serotype, isolated in Colombian cholera epidemic.
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