Isolation of a pandemic O3:K6 clone of a Vibrio parahaemolyticus strain from environmental and clinical sources in Thailand

Appl Environ Microbiol. 2000 Jun;66(6):2685-9. doi: 10.1128/AEM.66.6.2685-2689.2000.

Abstract

Application of an immunomagnetic enrichment method selective for Vibrio parahaemolyticus serovar K6 allowed isolation of a strain belonging to the pandemic O3:K6 clone of V. parahaemolyticus from fresh shellfish not implicated in a clinical case in southern Thailand. Arbitrarily primed PCR profiles of this strain, clinical O3:K6 strains isolated from sporadic diarrhea cases in the same area, and a standard pandemic O3:K6 strain were indistinguishable.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Bacteriological Techniques
  • Colony Count, Microbial
  • Decapoda / microbiology
  • Decapodiformes / microbiology
  • Diarrhea / microbiology
  • Disease Outbreaks*
  • Fishes / microbiology
  • Humans
  • Immunomagnetic Separation
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction / methods
  • Seafood / microbiology*
  • Thailand / epidemiology
  • Vibrio Infections / epidemiology
  • Vibrio Infections / microbiology*
  • Vibrio parahaemolyticus / classification
  • Vibrio parahaemolyticus / genetics*
  • Vibrio parahaemolyticus / isolation & purification*