Volume 14, Number 12—December 2008

CME ACTIVITY

Clinical Characteristics and Molecular Subtyping of Vibrio vulnificus Illnesses, Israel

Ronit Zaidenstein, Chantal Sadik, Larisa Lerner, Lea Valinsky, June Kopelowitz, Ruth Yishai, Vered Agmon, Michele Parsons, Cheryl Bopp, and Miriam Weinberger 

Author affiliations: Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin, Israel (R. Zaidenstein, M. Weinberger); Israel Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel (C. Sadik, L. Lerner, L. Valinsky, J. Kopelowitz, R. Yishai, V. Agmon); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (M. Parsons, C. Bopp); Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel (M. Weinberger)

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Figure 1. PCR restriction fragment length polymorphism of Vibrio vulnificus cytotoxin gene vvhA. A) PCR amplicon of vvhA gene restriction digested with B) PstI or C) KpnI. Gel shows molecular size standards (M) and V. vulnificus biotype 3 (lanes 1–3) and biotype 1 (lane 4).

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