Prevalence, Antibiotic Susceptibility and Diversity of Vibrio parahaemolyticus Isolates in Seafood from South China

• Published in: Frontiers in microbiology Vol. 8; p. 2566
• Main Authors: Yang, Ying, Xie, Jiafang, Li, Hua, Tan, Shuwen, Chen, Yanfeng, Yu, Hui
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 20.12.2017
• Subjects: antibiotic resistance; Microbiology; MLST; prevalence; Vibrio parahaemolyticus; virulence gene; Vibrio parahaemolyticus; virulence gene; prevalence; MLST; antibiotic resistance
• DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.02566
• ISSN: 1664-302X

is a leading cause of foodborne infections in China and a threat to human health worldwide. The main objective of this study is to determine the prevalence and characteristic of isolates in fish, oyster and shrimp samples from the South China domestic consumer market. To accomplish this, we examined 504 seafood samples from 11 provinces of China. The prevalence rates were 9.38, 30.36, and 25.60%, respectively. In summer (33.33%), the prevalence of was more common than that detected in the winter (14.01%). In addition, we identified 98 strains. The antimicrobial resistance trends of our seafood isolates to 15 antimicrobial agents revealed that major isolates were resistant to ampicillin (79.59%). Furthermore, 68.38% of the isolates were identified as being multidrug resistance. The prevalence of or genes among the isolates was 8.16 and 12.24%, respectively. ERIC-PCR and multilocus sequence typing (MLST) results enabled classification of the isolates ( = 98) into different clusters, revealing genetic variation and relatedness among the isolates. Thus, our findings demonstrate the prevalence of in a variety of common seafood consumed domestically in China and provides insights into the dissemination of antibiotic-resistant strains, which should improve our microbiological risk assessment knowledge associated with in seafoods.