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Volume 11, Number 7—July 2005
Letter

Pandemic Vibrio parahaemolyticus O3:K6 Spread, France

Marie-Laure Quilici*Comments to Author , Annick Robert-Pillot*, Jessica Picart*, and Jean-Michel Fournier*
Author affiliations: *Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

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Table

Characteristics of the Vibrio parahaemolyticus O3:K6 strains studied*

Strain no. CNRVC (source no.) Origin Date of isolation Source of transmission Detection of gene or phage sequences by PCR
R72H tdh trh toxRS orf8 Ribotype profile PFGE profile AP-PCR profile
970136 France (Atlantic coast) Oct 1997 Local oysters + + - + + R4† P-1a AP-a
980402 France (southwest) Sep 1998 Shellfish + + - + + R4 P-1c AP-a
990346 France (Mediterranean coast) Aug 1999 – + + - + + R4 P-1c AP-a
030478 France (Atlantic coast) Aug 2003 Local shellfish + + - + + R4 UT‡ AP-a
030479 France (Atlantic coast) Aug 2003 – + + - + + R4 UT AP-a
020468 (AN7410) Bangladesh 1998 + + - + + R4 P-1a AP-a
020469 (AO1851) Bangladesh 1999 + + - + + R4 P-1b AP-a
030085 (AQ4037) Maldives 1985 + - + - - Rb-2§ P-2 AP-b

*CNRVC, Centre National de Référence des Vibrions et du Cholera; PCR, polymerase chain reaction; PFGE, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis; AP-PCR, arbitrarily primed PCR.
†R4 ribotype pattern as described previously (5).
‡UT, untypeable: DNA was degraded before PFGE, presumably by DNases.
§According to our pattern designation.

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