Genetic characterization of Vibrio vulnificus strains from tilapia aquaculture in Bangladesh.
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.
Mahmud
Zahid H
ZH
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh.
Wright
Anita C
AC
Mandal
Shankar C
SC
Dai
Jianli
J
Jones
Melissa K
MK
Hasan
Mahmud
M
Rashid
Mohammad H
MH
Islam
Mohammad S
MS
Johnson
Judith A
JA
Gulig
Paul A
PA
Morris
J Glenn
JG
Ali
Afsar
A
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