High prevalence of thermostable direct hemolysin (TDH)-like toxin in Vibrio mimicus strains isolated from diarrhoeal patients

A total of 17 isolates of Vibrio mimicus from patients, 29 from environment and 2 from food was examined for toxigenicity. Sixteen (94%) clinical isolates and one (50%) from food produced TDH-like toxin, whereas none of the environmental isolates did so. The food from which V. mimicus with TDH-like...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Epidemiology and infection 1993-08, Vol.111 (1), p.49-53
Hauptverfasser:	Uchimura, M., Koiwai, K., Tsuruoka, Y., Tanaka, H.
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Animals Bacteria Bacterial Proteins Bacteriology Biological and medical sciences Diarrhea Diarrhea - microbiology Enterotoxins Environmental Microbiology Food poisoning Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology Hemolysin proteins Hemolysin Proteins - analysis Hemolysin Proteins - genetics Humans Mice Microbiology Pathogenicity, virulence, toxins, bacteriocins, pyrogens, host-bacteria relations, miscellaneous strains Polymerase chain reaction Prevalence Product category rules Seafoods Shellfish - microbiology Toxins Vibrio - genetics Vibrio - isolation & purification Vibrio - metabolism Vibrio Infections - microbiology Vibrio mimicus
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Zusammenfassung:	A total of 17 isolates of Vibrio mimicus from patients, 29 from environment and 2 from food was examined for toxigenicity. Sixteen (94%) clinical isolates and one (50%) from food produced TDH-like toxin, whereas none of the environmental isolates did so. The food from which V. mimicus with TDH-like toxin production was isolated, was one which had caused food poisoning. Only one environmental strain produced CT-like toxin, whilst ST-like toxin was not detected from any strains tested.
ISSN:	0950-2688 1469-4409
DOI:	10.1017/S0950268800056661