Emergence of a virulent clade of Vibrio vulnificus and correlation with the presence of a 33-kilobase genomic island.

Abstract excerpt

Vibrio vulnificus is a ubiquitous inhabitant of the marine coastal environment, and an important pathogen of humans. We characterized a globally distributed sample of environmental isolates from a range of habitats and hosts and compared these with isolates recovered from cases of human infection. Multilocus sequence typing data using six housekeeping genes divided 63 of the 67 isolates into the two main lineages...

Topics

Join the communities discussing this publication.

• Bacterial Typing Techniques
• Fishes
• Genomic Islands
• Geologic Sediments
• Seawater