| detection of viable and viable nonculturable vibrio cholerae o1 through cultures and immunofluorescence in the tucumán rivers, argentina. | vibrio cholerae has been sporadically isolated from rivers in tucumán, argentina, since the outbreak in 1991. the aim of this study was to determine the environmental reservoir of the bacterium in these rivers, assessing the presence of vibrio cholerae non-o1 and o1 (the latter both in its viable culturable and non culturable state) and its relationship to environmental physicochemical variables. 18 water samplings were collected in the salí river (in canal norte and banda) and the lules river b ... | 2007 | 17876456 |