title: Detection of Vibrionaceae in mussels and in their seawater growing area.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The seasonal trend and frequency of detection of Vibrionaceae in seawater samples and in molluscs collected in the Adriatic Sea was measured.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Over a 2-year period, 726 bacterial strains were isolated, of which 46.9% belonged to the Vibrio genus, 29.8% to the Aeromonas genus and the remaining 23.3% was made up of the Pseudomonas, Flavobacterium, Pasteurella, Agrobacterium and Ochrobacterium genera. Many of the isolated strains were shown to produce toxins.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The Vibrio genus, which was isolated more often than the other genera, was particularly prevalent in summer (54.4% of the total number of bacteria isolated during this season), while it was scarce in the winter months.
authors.affiliation: Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Laboratorio Alimenti, Rome, Italy. l.croci@iss.it
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Croci
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Serratore
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cozzi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Stacchini
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Milandri
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Suffredini
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Toti
mesh_terms: D000333:Aeromonas / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification; D000818:Animals; D049872:Bivalvia / Q000382:microbiology*; D006090:Gram-Negative Bacteria / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification; D016905:Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / Q000382:microbiology / Q000401:mortality; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D012621:Seasons; D012623:Seawater / Q000382:microbiology*; D014733:Vibrio / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification; D014735:Vibrio Infections / Q000382:microbiology / Q000401:mortality; D014737:Vibrionaceae / Q000145:classification* / Q000302:isolation & purification*