Bull World Health Organ. 1963;28(3):337-45.
A bacteriophage-typing scheme for Vibrio cholerae has been developed on the basis of the pattern of susceptibility of V. cholerae strains to four groups of freshly isolated cholera bacteriophages. Some 4066 strains of V. cholerae isolated in Calcutta during the period 1955-61 have been classified into seven types and subtypes. Less than 1% of the strains were untypable. No correlation was found to exist between the phage-types and serological types of V. cholerae. In lysogenic strains, however, a correlation was observed between the phage-types of V. cholerae and their lysogenic phages. Groups of infection deriving from a single source were found to be caused by single phage-types. The author also discusses the practical value of the phage-typing scheme for the epidemiological investigation of cholera.
已基于霍乱弧菌菌株对四组新分离的霍乱噬菌体的敏感性模式，制定了用于霍乱弧菌的噬菌体分型方案。1955-61 年期间在加尔各答分离的约 4066 株霍乱弧菌已分为 7 种和亚型。不到 1%的菌株无法分型。未发现霍乱弧菌的噬菌体型与血清型之间存在相关性。然而，在溶原性菌株中，霍乱弧菌的噬菌体型与其溶原性噬菌体之间存在相关性。来自单一来源的感染群被发现是由单一噬菌体型引起的。作者还讨论了噬菌体分型方案在霍乱流行病学调查中的实际价值。
