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Genetic characterization of Vibrio vulnificus strains from tilapia aquaculture in Bangladesh.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Jul 2010
Mahmud Zahid H, Wright Anita C, Mandal Shankar C, Dai Jianli, Jones Melissa K, Hasan Mahmud, Rashid Mohammad H, Islam Mohammad S, Johnson Judith A, Gulig Paul A, Morris J Glenn, Ali Afsar
Abstract excerpt
Outbreaks of Vibrio vulnificus wound infections in Israel were previously attributed to tilapia aquaculture. In this study, V. vulnificus was frequently isolated from coastal but not freshwater aquaculture in Bangladesh. Phylogenetic analyses showed that strains from Bangladesh differed remarkably from isolates commonly recovered elsewhere from fish or oysters and were more closely related to strains of clinical...
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