Epidemiologic Study of Vibrio vulnificus Infections by Using Variable Number Tandem Repeats

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Broza, Yoav Y. ; Danin-Poleg, Yael ; Lerner, Larisa ; Valinsky, Lea ; Broza, Meir ; Kashi, Yechezkel
• Description:
  A 3-year environmental and clinical Vibrio vulnificus survey using simple-sequence repeats typing shows that V. vulnificus biotype 3 constitutes approximately 21% of the bacterium population in tested aquaculture ponds as opposed to approximately 86% of clinical cases. Simple-sequence repeats proved to be a useful epidemiologic tool, providing information on the environmental source of the pathogen.
• Subjects:
  Alleles Animals Bacteria Bacterial Typing Communicable Diseases, Emerging Dispatch Environmental Microbiology Epidemiology Fisheries Fishes Food Microbiology Humans Israel Microsatellites Minisatellite Repeats Molecular Epidemiology Phylogeny Single-sequence Repeats SSR Tilapia Variable Number Tandem Repeats Vibrio Infections Vibrio Vulnificus VNTR

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 15(8):1282-1285.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Volume:
  15
• Issue:
  8
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:0ce58c086702a06728077e0879e8798ec26ad03bdcc6fa3f9eb30f6bd84ebdba
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/17372/cdc_17372_DS1.pdf
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