Population analysis of Vibrio parahaemolyticus originating from different geographical regions demonstrates a high genetic diversity.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Vibrio parahaemolyticus is frequently isolated from environmental and seafood samples and associated with gastroenteritis outbreakes in American, European, Asian and African countries. To distinguish between different lineages of V. parahaemolyticus various genotyping techniques have been used, incl. multilocus sequence typing (MLST). Even though some studies have already applied MLST analysis to characterize V. parahaemolyticus strain sets, these studies have been restricted to specific geographical areas (e.g. U.S. coast, Thailand and Peru), have focused exclusively on pandemic or non-pandemic pathogenic isolates or have been based on a limited strain number.

Results

To generate a global picture of V. parahaemolyticus genotype distribution, a collection of 130 e

SUBMITTER: Urmersbach S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4015679 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature