Laboratory evaluation on pathogenic potentialities of Vibrio furnissii.
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.
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Laboratório Keizo Asami, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Cidade Universitária, Recife, Brasil.
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D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000032:analysis*; D006367:HeLa Cells; D006801:Humans; D014733:Vibrio / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D014774:Virulence
D001426:Bacterial Proteins