Prevalence and Genomic Characterization of <i>Vibrio parahaemolyticus</i> Isolated from a Vast Amount of Aquatic Products in Huzhou, China.

ABSTRACT: Vibrio parahaemolyticus is the leading bacterial cause of gastroenteritis associated with aquatic food consumption globally. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of V. parahaemolyticus in aquatic foods from Huzhou and to identify the serotypes, antimicrobial resistance, virulence factors, and genetic relatedness of the strains. A total of 306 isolates were detected from 1314 aquatic food samples from 2022 to 2024. The results indicated that the most prevalent serotypes were O1:KUT (17.0%), O2:K28 (13.7%), and O2:KUT (13.1%). Multilocus sequence typing analysis divided the 306 isolates into 175 sequence types (STs), and the predominant sequence type was ST864 (3.3%). Antimicrobial susceptibility tests showed that 2.6% of isolates were multidrug resistant. High resistan

SUBMITTER: Yan W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12295969 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature