Virulence Profiles of Vibrio vulnificus in German Coastal Waters, a Comparison of North Sea and Baltic Sea Isolates

• Published in: International journal of environmental research and public health Vol. 12; no. 12; pp. 15943 - 15959
• Main Authors: Bier, Nadja, Jäckel, Claudia, Dieckmann, Ralf, Brennholt, Nicole, Böer, Simone, Strauch, Eckhard
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI 15.12.2015
• Subjects: Baltic States - epidemiology; Europe - epidemiology; Foodborne Diseases - epidemiology; Genetic Variation; Genotype; Germany - epidemiology; Global Warming; Humans; Multilocus Sequence Typing; North Sea - epidemiology; Oceans and Seas; Phenotype; Prevalence; Seawater - microbiology; Vibrio Infections - epidemiology; Vibrio vulnificus - genetics; Vibrio vulnificus - isolation & purification; Vibrio vulnificus - pathogenicity; Virulence - genetics; Wound Infection - microbiology; North Sea; Baltic States; Europe; Germany; multilocus sequence typing; global warming; pathogenicity potential; genotypes; public health risk; vibrio infection; virulence-associated traits

Vibrio vulnificus is a halophilic bacterium of coastal environments known for sporadically causing severe foodborne or wound infections. Global warming is expected to lead to a rising occurrence of V. vulnificus and an increasing incidence of human infections in Northern Europe. So far, infections i...