This gelatin agar medium was used in the identification of the bacteria Vibrio cholerae, the causal agent of cholera.
Until the 19th century, cholera was confined to the Indian sub-continent. There, cholera outbreaks are seasonal with one or two peaks per year. From this region, cholera has spread throughout the world seven times since 1817.
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