title: Laboratory evaluation on pathogenic potentialities of Vibrio furnissii.
abstract: Sixteen strains of Vibrio furnissii recovered from 16 Brazilian patients with diarrhea were screened for virulence-associated factors. All strains were non-invasive, non-fimbriated, and did not produce either enterotoxins or cholera-like toxin. In contrast, most were hemolytic on blood agar and their broth-culture supernatants damaged HeLa cell monolayers. These cytolysins, as accepted for other enteropathogenic members of the family Vibrionaceae, might be determinants of pathogenicity in V. furnissii-mediated enteritis.
authors.affiliation: Laboratório Keizo Asami, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Cidade Universitária, Recife, Brasil.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Magalhães
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Castello Filho
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Magalhães
authors.forename: T T
authors.initials: TT
authors.lastname: Gomes
mesh_terms: D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000032:analysis*; D006367:HeLa Cells; D006801:Humans; D014733:Vibrio / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D014774:Virulence
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins