Pandemic Spread of an O3:K6 Clone of <i>Vibrio parahaemolyticus</i> and Emergence of Related Strains Evidenced by Arbitrarily Primed PCR and <i>toxRS</i> Sequence Analyses

Matsumoto, Chiho; Okuda, Jun; Ishibashi, Masanori; Iwanaga, Masaaki; Garg, Pallavi; Rammamurthy, Thandavarayan; Wong, Hin‐chung; DePaola, Angelo; Bu Kim, Yung; John Albert, M.; Nishibuchi, Mitsuaki

doi:10.1128/jcm.38.2.578-585.2000

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Pandemic Spread of an O3:K6 Clone of Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Emergence of Related Strains Evidenced by Arbitrarily Primed PCR and toxRS Sequence Analyses

Published in Journal of Clinical Microbiology • Feb 1, 2000

Authors:

Chiho Matsumoto

Jun Okuda

Masanori Ishibashi

Abstract

Vibrio parahaemolyticus O3:K6 strains responsible for the increase in the number of cases of diarrhea in Calcutta, India, beginning in February 1996 and those isolated from Southeast Asian travelers beginning in 1995 were shown to belong to a unique clone characterized by possession of the tdh gene ...

Subject

Vibrio parahaemolyticus

clone (Java method)

Biology

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