title: Isolation of a pandemic O3:K6 clone of a Vibrio parahaemolyticus strain from environmental and clinical sources in Thailand.
abstract: Application of an immunomagnetic enrichment method selective for Vibrio parahaemolyticus serovar K6 allowed isolation of a strain belonging to the pandemic O3:K6 clone of V. parahaemolyticus from fresh shellfish not implicated in a clinical case in southern Thailand. Arbitrarily primed PCR profiles of this strain, clinical O3:K6 strains isolated from sporadic diarrhea cases in the same area, and a standard pandemic O3:K6 strain were indistinguishable.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Prince of Songkla University, Hat-yai, Thailand.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Vuddhakul
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chowdhury
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Laohaprertthisan
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pungrasamee
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Patararungrong
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Thianmontri
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ishibashi
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Matsumoto
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nishibuchi
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001431:Bacteriological Techniques; D015169:Colony Count, Microbial; D033364:Decapoda / Q000382:microbiology; D049832:Decapodiformes / Q000382:microbiology; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000382:microbiology; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D005399:Fishes / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D018189:Immunomagnetic Separation; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods; D017747:Seafood / Q000382:microbiology*; D013785:Thailand / Q000453:epidemiology; D014735:Vibrio Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D014736:Vibrio parahaemolyticus / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification*