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Vibrio parahaemolyticus infectious for both humans and edible mollusk abalone.
Microbes and infection - 1 May 2003
Lee Kuo-Kau, Liu Ping-Chung, Huang Chi-Yang
Abstract excerpt
The aims of this study are to report evidence of the first laboratory-acquired infection of Vibrio parahaemolyticus associated with handling experimentally infected abalones and to describe the virulence of the two bacterial strains tested in these animals. Two strains of V. parahaemolyticus, one from the stool of a patient with acute gastroenteritis (strain 880713) and the other from the hemolymph of a diseased...
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