Prevalence and virulence of Vibrio parahaemolyticus isolated from clinical and environmental samples in Huzhou, China

Peng Zhang, Xiaofang Wu, Lei Ji, Wei Yan, Liping Chen, Zhonghao Lu, Deshun Xu, Yunfeng Zha, Dafang Xu, Fenfen Dong · 2024

Read Prevalence and virulence of Vibrio parahaemolyticus isolated from clinical and environmental samples in Huzhou, China by Peng Zhang, Xiaofang Wu, Lei Ji, Wei Yan, Liping Chen, Zhonghao Lu, Deshun Xu, Yunfeng Zha, Dafang Xu, Fenfen Dong (2024) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-11622476.txt.

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Peng Zhang and co-authors survey a seafood-borne bacterium in patients and the environment around Huzhou, China, in a 2024 study. Vibrio parahaemolyticus is now the top cause of seafood-linked infection worldwide. It lives in coastal waters and shellfish. Which strains sicken people, and how they differ from water strains, was murky.

More than one hundred strains from 2020 to 2023 were typed. Dozens of serotypes appeared, with a few dominating patient cases. Growth and swimming traits of major strains were compared across sources. Shared types between water and clinic hint at direct routes to illness. Food safety teams gain targets for monitoring harvest areas. The molecular map also readies outbreak tracing.

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CREATORPeng Zhang, Xiaofang Wu, Lei Ji, Wei Yan, Liping Chen, Zhonghao Lu, Deshun Xu, Yunfeng Zha, Dafang Xu, Fenfen Dong
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE42 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11622476

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