Epidemic Dynamics of Vibrio parahaemolyticus Illness in a Hotspot of Disease Emergence, Galicia, Spain
Jaime Martinez-Urtaza
, Joaquin Trinanes, Michel Abanto, Antonio Lozano-Leon, Jose Llovo-Taboada, Marta Garcia-Campello, Anxela Pousa, Andy Powell, Craig Baker-Austin, and Narjol Gonzalez-Escalona
Author affiliations: Centre for Environment Fisherie,s and Aquaculture Science, Weymouth, Dorset, UK (J. Martinez-Urtaza, A. Powell, C. Baker-Austin); Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (J. Trinanes); National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Miami, Florida, USA (J. Trinanes); University of Miami, Miami (J. Trinanes); University of La Frontera, Temuco, Chile (M. Abanto); Laboratory ASMECRUZ, Bueu, Spain (A. Lozano-Leon); Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela (J. Llovo-Taboada); Complexo Hospitalario de Pontevedra, Pontevedra, Spain (M. Garcia-Campello); Direccion Xeral de Innovación e Xestión da Saúde Pública, Consellería de Sanidade, Xunta de Galicia, Galicia, Spain (A. Pousa, A. Powell); US Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland, USA (N. Gonzalez-Escalona)
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Figure 1. Phylogenetic reconstruction of Vibrio parahaemolyticus based on 738 available genomes. Red dots indicate isolates from Spain collected over the past 20 years from clinical settings and environmental sources. Colors represent sequence types, and areas without color correspond to undetermined sequence types. Scale bars represent nucleotide substitutions per site.
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