Volume 7, Number 3—June 2001
Dispatch
Filamentous Phage Associated with Recent Pandemic Strains of Vibrio parahaemolyticus
Tetsuya Iida
, Akiko Hattori, Kenichi Tagomori, Hatsumi Nasu, Rochman Naim, and Takeshi Honda
, Akiko Hattori, Kenichi Tagomori, Hatsumi Nasu, Rochman Naim, and Takeshi HondaTable
Distribution of ORF8 in clinical isolates of Vibrio parahaemolyticus
| Serovar | ORF8a | PFGE genotypeb | No. of strains |
|---|---|---|---|
| O3:K6 | + | A | 34 |
| - | A | 1 | |
| O4:K68 | + | A | 11 |
| - | - | 0 | |
| O1:KUT | + | A | 8 |
| - | A | 1 | |
| - | B | 8 | |
| Others | + | - | 0 |
| - | B | 33 | |
| Total | 96 |
aPossession of ORF8: (+) denotes presence of ORF8; (-) denotes absence of ORF8.
bPulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) pattern of the genomic DNA of strains; A, genotype closely related to recent O3:K6 strains (7); B, genotype distinct from that of recent O3:K6 strains.
