Abstract:
:A specific serotype of Vibrio parahaemolyticus, O3:K6, has recently been linked to epidemics of gastroenteritis in Southeast Asia, Japan, and North America. These pandemic O3:K6 strains appear to have recently spread across continents from a single origin to reach global coverage, based on profiling of strains by several molecular typing methods. In this study, variable-number tandem repeats (VNTR)-based fingerprinting was applied to clinical and environmental V. parahaemolyticus O3:K6 strains in an attempt to develop a molecular method with increased sensitivity for discriminating strains; the relative discriminatory powers were compared with ribotyping and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). All clinical strains tested were independent human isolates obtained from different outbreaks or from sporadic cases in Tokyo during the period from 1996 to 2003. Multiple-locus VNTR analysis (MLVA) was shown to have high resolution and reproducibility for typing of V. parahaemolyticus clones. MLVA analysis of 28 pandemic V. parahaemolyticus O3:K6 strains isolated from human cases produced 28 distinct VNTR patterns. The VNTR loci displayed between 2 and 15 alleles at each of eight loci with Nei's diversity index ranging from 0.35 and 0.91. These data demonstrated that MLVA is useful for individual strain typing of new O3:K6 strains, which appear to be closely related by other molecular methods.
journal_name
J Microbiol Methodsjournal_title
Journal of microbiological methodsauthors
Kimura B,Sekine Y,Takahashi H,Tanaka Y,Obata H,Kai A,Morozumi S,Fujii Tdoi
10.1016/j.mimet.2007.12.014subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2008-03-01 00:00:00pages
313-20issue
3eissn
0167-7012issn
1872-8359pii
S0167-7012(08)00003-1journal_volume
72pub_type
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