title: Draft Genome Sequences of Four Strains of Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Three of Which Cause Early Mortality Syndrome/Acute Hepatopancreatic Necrosis Disease in Shrimp in China and Thailand.
abstract: We sequenced four Vibrio parahaemolyticus strains, three of which caused serious acute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease. Sequence analysis of the virulent strains revealed not only genes related to cholera toxin and the type IV pilus/type IV secretion system but also a unique, previously unreported, large extrachromosomal plasmid that encodes a homolog to the insecticidal Photorhabdus insect-related binary toxin PirAB.
authors.forename: Yi-Ting
authors.initials: YT
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: I-Tung
authors.initials: IT
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Chung-Te
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Chien-Yu
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biotechnology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Shih-Shun
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Lien-I
authors.initials: LI
authors.lastname: Hor
authors.affiliation: Institute of Bioinformatics and Biosignal Transduction, College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Ta-Chien
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Tseng
authors.affiliation: Institute of Bioinformatics and Biosignal Transduction, College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Yun-Tzu
authors.initials: YT
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Kallaya
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sritunyalucksana
authors.forename: Siripong
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Thitamadee
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biotechnology, College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Han-Ching
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: gracelow@mail.ncku.edu.tw.
authors.forename: Chu-Fang
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Lo