Standard culture methods used in routine diagnosis and surveillance for V. cholerae by public health reference laboratories depend on handling the samples of which V. cholerae culture is recovered. Regarding this, V. cholerae cultures under study investigation were recovered from V. cholerae-contracted or suspected patients with acute or severe diarrhea whose stools or rectal swabs had been collectively obtained by clinical laboratory settings during the outbreaks over two past decades
between 1994 and 2010 in CentralThailand.