Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development

  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue: 2

Phenotypic and Genotypic Characterization of Vibrio Cholerae O1 Isolated from an Outbreak in Hyderabad

  • Author:
  • A Neelima1,, P Suresh2, B L Sarkar3, T Rama Murthy4, K Nagamani5
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Page Number: 121 to 125

1Assistant Professor, Dept of Microbiology, Mediciti Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad

2Tutor, Dept. of Microbiology, DD Medical College & DD Hospital, Tiruvallur, Chennai

3Assistant Director, Division of Microbiology, NICED, Kolkata

4Deputy Director, Division of Microbiology, NICED, Kolkata

5Professor, Department of Microbiology, Gandhi Medical College, Secunderabad

*Corresponding author: Neelima A, Assistant Professor (Dept. of Microbiology), Mediciti Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. Phone No: +91 9014721484. E-mail: neelimasudharshan@yahoo.com

Online published on 9 May, 2014.

Abstract

Cholera is an acute diarrhoeal disease caused by Vibrio cholerae, of the 206 serogroups of Vibrio cholerae only O1 and O139 which produce CTX are known to cause epidemics. New variants of Eltor biotype exhibiting characters of classical biotype has been reported from different counter parts of the world since 2002. The present study was conducted to determine biotypes, serotypes and phage types of Vibrio cholerae prevalent in Hyderabad and to determine the antibiotic susceptibility pattern of the isolates.

Keywords

Vibrio Cholerae, Serotype, Biotype, Phage Type, Eltor Variant, MAMA PCR, Ctxb Gene