RAPID DETECTION OF VIBRIO-CHOLERAE O1 IN STOOLS OF PERUVIAN CHOLERA PATIENTS BY USING MONOCLONAL IMMUNODIAGNOSTIC KITS

Authors
CARILLO L GILMAN RH MANTLE RE NUNEZ N WATANABE J MORON J QUISPE V RAMIREZRAMOS A CABALLERO J VILLAREALL J COLWELL R LOSONSKY G HASAN J LOOMIS L
Citation
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
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Microbiology
Journal title
Journal of clinical microbiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00951137
Volume
32
Issue
3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
856 - 857
Database
ISI
SICI code
0095-1137(1994)32:3<856:RDOVOI>2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
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.