Trends in the epidemiology of pandemic and non-pandemic strains of Vibrio parahaemolyticus isolated from diarrheal patients in Kolkata, India.

• Main Authors: Gururaja P Pazhani (Author), Sushanta K Bhowmik (Author), Santanu Ghosh (Author), Sucharita Guin (Author), Sanjucta Dutta (Author), Krishnan Rajendran (Author), Dhira Rani Saha (Author), Ranjan K Nandy (Author), Mihir K Bhattacharya (Author), Asish K Mukhopadhyay (Author), Thandavarayan Ramamurthy (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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A total of 178 strains of V. parahaemolyticus isolated from 13,607 acute diarrheal patients admitted in the Infectious Diseases Hospital, Kolkata has been examined for serovar prevalence, antimicrobial susceptibility and genetic traits with reference to virulence, and clonal lineages. Clinical sympt...