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Virus isolation studies on rectal swab specimens of cholera patients were carried out in tissue cultures during the Bangkok, Thailand cholera epidemic of 1958 and 1959. An adenovirus or enterovirus was isolated from 6 of 44 patients with proven cholera. It was concluded that viruses which can be isolated in monkey kidney and HeLa cell tissue cultures were not involved in the cholera syndrome.
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