| [vibrio cholerae in madagascar: study of a multiresistant strain]. | madagascar was cholera free until march 1999. the first case was reported in mahajanga, a north west coast harbor. ten months later and despite a massive use of tetracycline as prophylactic drug, cholera had reached every region of the island. all suspected cholera samples were analysed at the pasteur institute of madagascar where susceptibility to tetracycline was systematically performed. on february 2000, a multidrug resistant strain of v. cholerae was isolated. we studied this strain by perf ... | 2001 | 12471739 |