Author:
DALSGAARD A.,GLERUP P.,HØYBYE L.-L.,PAARUP A.-M.,MEZA R.,BERNAL M.,SHIMADA T.,TAYLOR D. N.
Abstract
During a cholera surveillance programme, Vibrio furnissii
was isolated in late January and
early February 1994 from stool samples collected from 14 persons of whom
six had diarrhoea.
The remaining eight persons were healthy family members or neighbours to
cholera cases. No
common source of infection was found. Strains isolated from stool
samples each showed
typical biochemical reactions of V. furnissii including gas
production. Each isolate, except one,
agglutinated O-antisera yielding a total of eight different serotypes.
Most isolates were sensitive
to 10 antibiotics tested, except to ampicillin and the vibriostatic agent
O/129 (10 μg). Eight of
14 (57%) strains carried plasmids in the size range
2·6–88 kb, however, no correlation was
found between antibiotic susceptibility patterns and plasmid content.
Altogether, seven closely
related HindIII ribotypes were observed among the 14
V. furnissii isolates studied. V. furnissii
strains isolated from family members and other persons living close
together often showed
different ribotypes suggesting that the isolation was not associated with
neighbourhood.
Serotyping, plasmid profiling and ribotyping revealed a high strain diversity
within V. furnissii,
however, the importance of V. furnissii as an enteric
pathogen remains to be elucidated.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Infectious Diseases,Epidemiology
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25 articles.
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