Biochemical fingerprinting of Vibrio parahaemolyticus by the PhenePlate system: comparison between pandemic and non-pandemic serotypes.
During recent years a pandemic clone of Vibrio parahaemolyticus has emerged. Isolates of this clone are distributed among several serotypes, but are genotypically related. In the present study, a phenotyping method (biochemical fingerprinting) was used to characterize pandemic and non-pandemic isolates belonging to V. parahaemolyticus. It was found that the pandemic isolates showed a high level of phenotypic homogeneity and a majority of the pandemic isolates belonged to the same biochemical phenotype, whereas non-pandemic V. parahemolyticus isolates were more heterogeneous. In conclusion, biochemical fingerprinting of V. parahaemolyticus can be used as a first screening method to differentiate between pandemic and non-pandemic isolates of V. parahaemolyticus.
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Microbiology and Tumor Biology Center, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. mokhlasur.rahman@mtc.ki.se
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Kuhn
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Ramamurthy
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Rahman
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Mollby
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D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques; D021821:Communicable Diseases, Emerging / Q000382:microbiology; D005516:Food Microbiology; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D010641:Phenotype; D017747:Seafood; D014735:Vibrio Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology; D014736:Vibrio parahaemolyticus / Q000145:classification* / Q000302:isolation & purification