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Microevolution of pandemic Vibrio parahaemolyticus assessed by the number of repeat units in short sequence tandem repeat regions.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
García Katherine, Gavilán Ronnie G, Höfle Manfred G, Martínez-Urtaza Jaime, Espejo Romilio T
Abstract excerpt
The emergence of the pandemic strain Vibrio parahaemolyticus O3:K6 in 1996 caused a large increase of diarrhea outbreaks related to seafood consumption in Southeast Asia, and later worldwide. Isolates of this strain constitutes a clonal complex, and their effectual differentiation is possible by comparison of their variable number tandem repeats (VNTRs). The differentiation of the isolates by the differences in...
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