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Serological and molecular characteristics of Vibrio vulnificus biotype 3: evidence for high clonality.
Microbiology (Reading, England) - 1 Mar 2007
Bisharat Naiel, Amaro Carmen, Fouz Belén, Llorens Amparo, Cohen Daniel I
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Vibrio vulnificus biotype 3 has been implicated as the causative pathogen of an ongoing disease outbreak that erupted in Israel in 1996. Recent work based on multi-locus sequence typing (MLST) showed that V. vulnificus biotype 3 is genetically homogeneous. The aim of this study was to investigate the existence of subpopulations within this homogeneous biotype by characterizing the surface antigens and analysing...
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