Abstract
Outbreaks of Vibrio vulnificus wound infections in Israel were previously attributed to tilapia aquaculture. In this study, V. vulnificus was frequently isolated from coastal but not freshwater aquaculture in Bangladesh. Phylogenetic analyses showed that strains from Bangladesh differed remarkably from isolates commonly recovered elsewhere from fish or oysters and were more closely related to strains of clinical origin.
Publication types
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Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
MeSH terms
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Animals
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Aquaculture*
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Bacterial Typing Techniques
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Bangladesh
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Cluster Analysis
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DNA Fingerprinting
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Fish Diseases / microbiology*
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Genotype
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Phylogeny
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Polymerase Chain Reaction
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Sequence Analysis, DNA
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Tilapia / microbiology*
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Vibrio Infections / microbiology
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Vibrio Infections / veterinary*
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Vibrio vulnificus / classification*
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Vibrio vulnificus / genetics*
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Vibrio vulnificus / isolation & purification