title: Genetic characterization of Vibrio vulnificus strains from tilapia aquaculture in Bangladesh.
abstract: Outbreaks of Vibrio vulnificus wound infections in Israel were previously attributed to tilapia aquaculture. In this study, V. vulnificus was frequently isolated from coastal but not freshwater aquaculture in Bangladesh. Phylogenetic analyses showed that strains from Bangladesh differed remarkably from isolates commonly recovered elsewhere from fish or oysters and were more closely related to strains of clinical origin.
authors.affiliation: International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh.
authors.forename: Zahid H
authors.initials: ZH
authors.lastname: Mahmud
authors.forename: Anita C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Wright
authors.forename: Shankar C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Mandal
authors.forename: Jianli
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dai
authors.forename: Melissa K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: Mahmud
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hasan
authors.forename: Mohammad H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Rashid
authors.forename: Mohammad S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Islam
authors.forename: Judith A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: Paul A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Gulig
authors.forename: J Glenn
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Morris
authors.forename: Afsar
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ali
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017756:Aquaculture; D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques; D001459:Bangladesh; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D016172:DNA Fingerprinting; D005393:Fish Diseases / Q000382:microbiology*; D005838:Genotype; D010802:Phylogeny; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017210:Tilapia / Q000382:microbiology*; D014735:Vibrio Infections / Q000382:microbiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D041261:Vibrio vulnificus / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification