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Stools from 518 patients, suspected of having cholera, were examined. From 174 of these patients V. cholerae biotype eltor, serotype “Inaba” was isolated. All 174 were resistant to Mukerjee’s V. cholerae group-IV phage and to polymyxin B and colistin. They all agglutinated chicken RBC. Only 10 strains were positive by the tube haemolysis test with sheep RBC, but 172 were positive by the plate method. One hundred and twenty of the strains belonged to Mukerjee’s V. eltor phage-type IV and 53 to phage-type V; one strain was untypable. It is suggested that these strains may have originated from more than one source.
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