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| Yáñez,Romina; Bastías,Roberto; Higuera,Gastón; Salgado,Oscar; Katharios,Pantelis; Romero,Jaime; Espejo,Romilio; García,Katherine. |
| Background The surveillance of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in the Chilean coast has been mainly performed by multiplex PCR amplification of three different hemolysin genes, which are specie-specific virulence factors. These genes are also employed in the determination of V. parahaemolyticus pathogenic load in seafood and for characterization of pathogenic strains associated to diarrhea cases in human. During environmental surveillance that we performed every summer, we occasionally observed a thermolabile hemolysin (tlh) PCR product of a slightly smaller size than expected, which was coincident with low loads of V. parahaemolyticus in the environment. In order to understand this observation, we probed the specificity of tlh primers for the detection of V.... |
| Tipo: Journal article |
Palavras-chave: Hemolysin; Multiplex PCR; Pathogen surveillance; Virulence factor; Vibrio parahaemolyticus. |
| Ano: 2015 |
URL: http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-34582015000600012 |
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