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Development of Kaptive databases for Vibrio parahaemolyticus O- and K-antigen genotyping.
Microbial genomics - 1 May 2023
van der Graaf-van Bloois Linda, Chen Hongyou, Wagenaar Jaap A, Zomer Aldert L
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Vibrio parahaemolyticus is an important food-borne human pathogen and presents immunogenic surface polysaccharides, which can be used to distinguish problematic and disease-causing lineages. V. parahaemolyticus is divided in 16 O-serotypes (O-antigen) and 71 K-serotypes (K-antigen). Agglutination tests are still the gold standard for serotyping, but many V. parahaemolyticus isolates are not typable by...
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