L. Carillo et al., RAPID DETECTION OF VIBRIO-CHOLERAE O1 IN STOOLS OF PERUVIAN CHOLERA PATIENTS BY USING MONOCLONAL IMMUNODIAGNOSTIC KITS, Journal of clinical microbiology, 32(3), 1994, pp. 856-857
We compared stool culture with two commercial Vibrio cholerae 01 rapid
diagnostic kits which detect antigen in 100 adults with cholera in Pe
ru. Serum vibriocidal-antibody titer was used as an external reference
. Both rapid diagnostic kits appeared to detect cholera more frequentl
y than did culture and were highly specific.