title: [Preservation of cholerogenicity in cholera vibrios in the incomplete L-cycle stage].
abstract: The work presents the characteristics of the forms appearing as a result of the incomplete L cycle of Vibrio cholerae obtained in experimental conditions after the cultivation of typical V. eltor strain, serovar Ogawa, for 5 months at room temperature in sterile river water without subculturing. The culture formed shaprly changed L-similar colonies, had decreased agglutinability and was resistant to diagnostic cholera phages, but retained its cholerogenicity for suckling rabbits. A suggestion was made concerning the possible epidemiological significance of such forms and the necessity of their detection in the course of bacteriological analysis for cholera.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000833:Animals, Suckling; D007740:L Forms / Q000254:growth & development / Q000472:pathogenicity* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D008858:Microscopy, Phase-Contrast; D011817:Rabbits; D014734:Vibrio cholerae / Q000254:growth & development / Q000472:pathogenicity* / Q000648:ultrastructure
vernacular_title: Sokhranenie kholerogennosti u kholernogo vibriona v stadii nezavershennogo L-tsikla.