Vibrio fluvialis in Patients with Diarrhea, Kolkata, India

Authors :: Goutam Chowdhury
Gururaja P. Pazhani
Devarati Dutta
Sucharita Guin
Sanjucta Dutta
Santanu Ghosh
Hidemasa Izumiya
Masahiro Asakura
Shinji Yamasaki
Yoshifumi Takeda
Eiji Arakawa
Haruo Watanabe
Asish K. Mukhopadhyay
Mihir K. Bhattacharya
K. Rajendran
Gopinath Balakrish Nair
Thandavarayan Ramamurthy
Source :: Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 18, Iss 11, Pp 1868-1871 (2012)
Publication Year :: 2012
Publisher :: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2012.
Abstract: We identified 131 strains of Vibrio fluvialis among 400 nonagglutinating Vibrio spp. isolated from patients with diarrhea in Kolkata, India. For 43 patients, V. fluvialis was the sole pathogen identified. Most strains harbored genes encoding hemolysin and metalloprotease; this finding may contribute to understanding of the pathogenicity of V. fluvialis.