Vibrio fluvialis in Patients with Diarrhea, Kolkata, India

Vibrio fluvialis in Patients with Diarrhea, Kolkata, India

We identified 131 strains of Vibrio fluvialis among 400 nonagglutinating Vibrio spp. isolated from patients with diarrhea in Kolkata, India. For 43 patients, V. fluvialis was the sole pathogen identified. Most strains harbored genes encoding hemolysin and metalloprotease; this finding may contribute...

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Main Authors: Goutam Chowdhury, Gururaja P. Pazhani, Devarati Dutta, Sucharita Guin, Sanjucta Dutta, Santanu Ghosh, Hidemasa Izumiya, Masahiro Asakura, Shinji Yamasaki, Yoshifumi Takeda, Eiji Arakawa, Haruo Watanabe, Asish K. Mukhopadhyay, Mihir K. Bhattacharya, K. Rajendran, Gopinath Balakrish Nair, Thandavarayan Ramamurthy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2012-11-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Diarrhea
V. fluvialis
Vibrio fluvialis
antimicrobial resistance
PFGE
pulsed field gel electrophoresis
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/18/11/12-0520_article

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