Identification of Vibrio hollisae associated with severe gastroenteritis after consumption of raw oysters.
Vibrio hollisae was recovered from the stool culture of a 40-year-old female hospitalized for severe abdominal cramping, vomiting, fever, and watery diarrhea. She had consumed two dozen raw oysters 5 days prior. There was only a single colony on thiosulfate-citrate-bile salts-sucrose-agar, and definitive identification required conventional test media with 1% NaCl.
Carnahan
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Anne Arundel Medical Center, Annapolis, Maryland 21401.
Harding
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Watsky
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Hansman
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D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology; D005260:Female; D005516:Food Microbiology; D005759:Gastroenteritis / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D010125:Ostreidae / Q000382:microbiology*; D014733:Vibrio / Q000302:isolation & purification*