[Optimization of bacteriologic studies of cholera]. / Optimizatsiia bakteriologicheskogo issledovaniia na kholeru.

A colored medium is described, consisting of dry nutrient agar, 1 percent mannose, and 0.02 percent bromothymol blue. Use of this medium helps accelerate the process of vibrio growth and differentiate mannose-positive vibrios from mannose-negative ones. The described medium is simple to make and use, thus recommending it for bacteriologic laboratories.

[Serovars of nonagglutinating vibrios isolated on the territory of the Uzbek SSR and their role in the development of acute intestinal diseases]. / O serovarakh neaggliutiniruiushchikhsia vobrionov, vydelennykh na territorii Uzbekskoi SSR, i ikh roli v razvitii ostrykh kishechnykh zabolevanii.

As the result of the serotyping of 1,223 NAG vibrio strains isolated in the Uzbek SSR from the environment and 659 strains isolated from gastroenteritis patients and from vibriocarriers, the serovars of 563 strains (46%) and 420 strains (63%), respectively, were determined. The prevailing serovars were 08, 06, 09, 014, 05, 039, 041, 013, 019 among the strains isolated from the environment and 08, 041, 037, 05, 039, 024, 06 among the strains isolated from humans. The strains belonging to serovars 05, 06, 08, 024, 037, 039, 041 were isolated both from the environment and from humans. The possible role of these strains in the development of acute gastroenteritis and in the formation of vibriocarriership in humans is pointed out.

[Use of lincomycin, methicillin and ristomycin in the nutrient media for isolating pathogenic intestinal microorganisms]. / Ispol'zovanie linkomitsina, metitsillina i ristomitsina v pitatel'nykh sredakh dlia vydeleniia patogennykh kishechnykh mikroorganizmov

Elective-differentiating solid nutrient media for simultaneous isolation of Vibrioes, Salmonella and Shigella were developed. Antibiotics active against grampostive microflora and dry bile salts inhibiting the growth of Proteus were used as the inhibitors of the growth of the accompanying microflora. The medium was lincomycin and the bile salts may be prepared in a dry form.