Isolation of a pandemic O3:K6 clone of a Vibrio parahaemolyticus strain from environmental and clinical sources in Thailand.
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.
Vuddhakul
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Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Prince of Songkla University, Hat-yai, Thailand.
Chowdhury
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A
Laohaprertthisan
V
V
Pungrasamee
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P
Patararungrong
N
N
Thianmontri
P
P
Ishibashi
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M
Matsumoto
C
C
Nishibuchi
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M
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*