Emerging Infectious Diseases (Nov 2012)

Vibrio fluvialis in Patients with Diarrhea, Kolkata, India

  • 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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1811.120520
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 18, no. 11
pp. 1868 – 1871

Abstract

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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 to understanding of the pathogenicity of V. fluvialis.

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