Adhesive properties of Vibrio cholerae strains and mutants with varying biological characteristics
Uraleva, V.S.; Kutyreva, I.V.; Cherepakhina, I.I.; Trubnikova, V.A.
Zhurnal Mikrobiologii Epidemiologii i Immunobiologii 7: 51-55
1983
ISSN/ISBN: 0372-9311 PMID: 6624312 Document Number: 219985
V. cholerae strains and mutants devoid of adhesive activity and possessing very high adhesive activity were found in the collection under study. As a rule, cholerigenic strains possessed high or moderate adhesive activity, while in noncholerigenic strains the coefficient of adhesiveness varied over a wide range. The existence of a definite pronounced correlation between lecithinase activity and adhesiveness was established. Hemolysin-producing strains were found to possess high adhesive activity considerably more frequently than nonhemolytic strains.