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Laboratory evaluation on pathogenic potentialities of Vibrio furnissii

1993; Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde; Volume: 88; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/s0074-02761993000400017

1678-8060

Vera Magalhães, Adauto Castello Filho, M. C. A. S Magalhães, Tânia A. T. Gomes,

Aquaculture disease management and microbiota

Sixteen strains of Vibrio furnissii recovered from 16 Brazilian patients with diarrhea were screened for virulence-associated factors. All strains were non-invasive, non-fimbriated, and did not produce either enterotoxins or cholera-like toxin. In contrast, most were hemolytic on blood agar and their broth-culture supernatants damaged HeLa cell monolayers. These cytolysins, as accepted for other enteropathogenic members of the family Vibrionaceae, might be determinants of pathogenicity in V. furnissii-mediated enteritis.