title: Prevalence of the pandemic genotype of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and significance of its distribution across different serotypes.
abstract: Sixty-six strains of Vibrio parahaemolyticus belonging to 14 serotypes were isolated from hospitalized patients in Dhaka, Bangladesh, from January 1998 to December 2000. Among these, 48 strains belonging to four serotypes had the pandemic genotype and possessed the tdh gene. A marker (open reading frame ORF8) for a filamentous phage previously thought to correspond to the pandemic genotype was found to have a poor correlation with the pandemic genotype.
authors.affiliation: International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka-1212, Bangladesh.
authors.forename: N A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Bhuiyan
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ansaruzzaman
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kamruzzaman
authors.forename: Khorshed
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Alam
authors.forename: N R
authors.initials: NR
authors.lastname: Chowdhury
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nishibuchi
authors.forename: Shah M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Faruque
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Sack
authors.forename: Yoshifumi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Takeda
authors.forename: G Balakrish
authors.initials: GB
authors.lastname: Nair
mesh_terms: D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D001459:Bangladesh / Q000453:epidemiology; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D015995:Prevalence; D012703:Serotyping; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics; D014735:Vibrio Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D014736:Vibrio parahaemolyticus / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D014157:Transcription Factors; C066719:toxR protein, bacteria