" ORGANISMS IN CHOLERA STOOLS."

Cholera -“Rice water stools

An adult female presented with acute watery diarrhoea and severe dehydration during a cholera outbreak in Mae La refugee camp, Thailand in 2007. Her stools had the classic appearance of cholera “rice water stools”, which is similar to water where rice was boiled. Stool are watery, greyish in colour, cloudy, with flecks of mucus, with a non offensive fish-like odour (Panels A, B, C and D from th...

The Hydrogen-Ion Concentration of Cholera Stools

Cellular Elements in Cholera Stools and Their Relative Importance in Diagnosis of the Disease

an ordinary observer it is not very difficult to recognise the cardinal symptoms of the disease, but to associate them with the presence of Koch's comma-vibrio is by no means an easy task. It requires a good deal of technical skill and previous experience to cultivate and isolate cholera vibrio successfully from the majority of cases. Nevertheless, in spite of all the experience and skill that ...

Bacteriological Study of Stools of 746 Clinical Cholera Cases in Calcutta

cases which in general symptomatology and clinical features could not be distinguished from cases of true cholera confirmed by laboratory findings. But when the stools of such cases were examined bacteriologically they gave persistently negative results and thus stood in marked contrast to another group of cases investigated in the same field almost about the same time. In the latter group Koch...

Intestinal permeability changes and excretion of micro-organisms in stools of infants with diarrhoea and vomiting.

The relation between diarrhoea and vomiting, the excretion of stool micro-organisms, and the passive intestinal permeability in 20 infants living in a deprived urban area was studied prospectively from birth to age 6 months. Intestinal permeability was measured from the ratio of lactulose to mannitol recovered in the urine of infants receiving feeds containing both markers. Micro-organism excre...