For effective Vibrio spp. surveillance, including the eventual identification of the source contaminated seafood, strain delineation is important. Serotype is an important characteristic in strain delineation since there is strong association between certain serotypes and pandemic illness. Several of these isolates were identified as O:4 but showed weak agglutination with the polyvalent antiserum K group II and failed to agglutinate with any of the seven associated monovalent antiserum.
strain
10-4288
host_disease
Vibrio gastroenteritis
lat_lon
not collected
collection_date
2003
geo_loc_name
Canada: British Columbia
serotype
O4:KII
isolation_source
clinical sample
host
Homo sapiens
collected_by
National Microbiology Laboratory
BioSampleModel
Pathogen.cl