Cholera, a problem of public health, as well as the other diarrheas included in the notion of diarrheic disease of infectious aetiology, has been the subject during the last two decades of extensive investigations, whose results tend to modify classical knowledge and therefore the mode of understanding of the diarrheic disease in general and of cholera in particular. The authors review recent progress in the domain of taxonomy, pathogeny (enterotoxins-immunodeterminants), sensitivity to antibiotics and chemotherapeutical agents, problems of epidemiology, bacteriological diagnosis (atypical aspects) phagotypes and vibriocin typing, active immunization.

Cholera↗

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Preliminary report on the lysogeny and lysosensitivity of some non-agglutinable vibrio strains (NAG) isolated in Romania.

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Bacteriophage Typing↗

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[Current status of diarrhea caused by or associated with cholera vibrions of the non 0:1 group].

Known until not long age under the generic name of non-agglutinable vibrios (NAG), cholera vibrios group non 0:1 represent a group as yet insufficiently known in spite of the marked progress made during the last 10 - 15 years in this field. Wide spread throughout the world vibrios group non 0:1 have been isolated from surface waters, from the intestines of fish, birds and mammals (from humans in case of enteritis, systemic infections, healthy subjects). The medical interest stands in the participation of these vibrios in the acute diarrheic syndrome and as aetiologic agents. The authors review the data concerning the symptomatology, pathogenic mechanisms, epidemiology and bacteriologic diagnosis.

Diarrhea↗

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