Occurrence of Pandemic Clones of Vibrio parahaemolyticus Isolates from Seafood and Clinical Samples in a Chinese Coastal Province

• Published in: Foodborne pathogens and disease Vol. 5; no. 2; pp. 127 - 134
• Main Authors: Vongxay, Khamphouth, Pan, Zijiang, Zhang, Xiaofeng, Wang, Shuna, Cheng, Suyun, Mei, Lingling, Xu, Cheng, Fang, Weihuan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.04.2008
• Subjects: Animals; bacterial contamination; bacterial infections; Bacterial Proteins - genetics; Base Sequence; clones; Disease Outbreaks; disease prevalence; disease transmission; DNA-Binding Proteins - genetics; Drug Resistance, Bacterial; food contamination; Food Contamination - analysis; food pathogens; food quality; foodborne illness; Genetic Markers; Hemolysin Proteins - genetics; hemolysis; human health; Humans; mathematical models; Membrane Proteins - genetics; Molecular Sequence Data; nucleotide sequences; pandemic; phenotype; polymerase chain reaction; Polymerase Chain Reaction - methods; Risk Assessment; Seafood - microbiology; seafoods; Serotyping; Shellfish - microbiology; Transcription Factors - genetics; urease; Vibrio Infections - microbiology; Vibrio Infections - transmission; Vibrio parahaemolyticus; Vibrio parahaemolyticus - classification; Vibrio parahaemolyticus - genetics; Vibrio parahaemolyticus - isolation & purification; Vibrio parahaemolyticus - pathogenicity; virulence; Virulence - genetics; China

Fifty-four isolates of Vibrio parahaemolyticus were examined for hemolytic and urease-producing phenotypes as well as presence of virulence markers by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). All clinical isolates (11/11, 100%) and one out of 42 isolates from seafood (2.4%) possessed the tdh gene and showed...