TY - JOUR ID - open2091 UR - http://crdd.osdd.net/open/2091/ A1 - Muthukumarappa, Thungapathra A1 - Ghosh, Amit A1 - Sharma, Charu A1 - Gupta, Naveen A1 - Mukhopadhyay, Ashish A1 - Hemanta, Kole A1 - Nair, Gopinath A1 - Ghosh, Balakrish A1 - Kumar, Ranajit TI - rocess for the isolation of a nontoxinogenic vibrio cholerae strain and a process for preparing cholera vaccine from said vibrio cholerae strain Y1 - 2000/// N2 - A process for the isolation of nontoxinogenic V. cholerae strain and a process for preparing a cholera vaccine from said V. cholerae strain, said process comprising (a) isolating V. cholerae from the stool of a patient suffering from cholera by spreading the stool on a selector medium specific for V. cholerae, (b) separating the non-toxinogenic V. cholerae strain from the population of the V. cholerae strains isolated in step (a), and (c) incorporating immunogenic cholera toxin (ctx) B subunit gene into the chromosome of the strain by conventional methods to produce the vaccine. ER -