| vibrio cholerae non-o1 as a causal pathogen in cholera patients in yangon, myanmar. | vibrio cholerae non-o1 was studied in patients with rice watery diarrhoea admitted to the infectious diseases hospital, yangon. the study was conducted during 1993-1994 to determine the association of the pathogen with the disease. altogether 771 rectal swabs were collected and examined. v. cholerae were isolated by the standard methods. the seasonal, age and sex distribution, serotyping and susceptibility of these isolates to antibiotics were investigated, v. cholerae were isolated from 233 (3o ... | 1995 | 8568194 |
| vibrio spp. isolated from natural waters of the city of yangon, myanmar. | virulence properties of the environmental isolate of vibrios from natural waters of yangon, myanmar were studied. vibrio spp. were isolated for identification by the membrane filtration method and cultured on thio-sulphate-bile-sucrose media. no vibrio cholerae o1 were isolated. v. cholerae non-o1 were the major vibrio species isolated from the samples. none of them were detected for cholera-toxin-like toxin, thermostable direct haemolysin, or heat-stable enterotoxin. sixty-one isolates gave hae ... | 1993 | 8409281 |