Vibrio Cholerae Diagnostics
Vibrio cholerae O1 isolation enhanced with antibiotic selection technique
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, May 2nd, 2006
According to a study from Bangladesh, "Predicting cholera epidemics through monitoring the environment for the presence of pathogenic Vibrio cholerae is complicated by the presence in water of a large number of mostly nonpathogenic V. cholerae strains.
"V. cholerae strains causing recent cholera epidemics in Bangladesh carry the sulfamethoxazole-trimethoprim (SXT) element, which encodes resistance to several antibiotics."
"Here, we show that the use of a culture medium containing...
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