Distribution of the two novel vf33-like filamentous bacteriophage among the pandemic strains of vibrio parahaemolyticus O3:K6 and related strains

摘要

Vibrio parahaemolyticus is a halophilic marine vibrio which causes gastroenteritis in humans by seafood consumption. Pandemic infections of V. parahaemolyticus serovar O3:K6 have been breaking out since 1996 in Asian countries, and the United States. Such a predilection for a single serovar to dominate among V.