title: Isolation of sucrose late-fermenting and nonfermenting variants of Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal: implications for diagnosis of cholera.
abstract: The sucrose-containing selective medium thiosulfate-citrate-bile salt-sucrose agar missed a sucrose nonfermenting and four sucrose late-fermenting variant strains of Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal from diarrheal stools. These strains were, however, correctly identified as V. cholerae O139 on a sucrose-deficient selective medium, taurocholate-tellurite-gelatin agar.
authors.affiliation: International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ansaruzzaman
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rahman
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Kibriya
authors.forename: N A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Bhuiyan
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Islam
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Albert
mesh_terms: D002771:Cholera / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology; D003470:Culture Media; D005285:Fermentation; D014644:Genetic Variation; D006801:Humans; D007700:Kinetics; D013395:Sucrose / Q000378:metabolism*; D014734:Vibrio cholerae / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D003470:Culture Media; D013395:Sucrose