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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, March 1999, p. 1352-1355, Vol. 65, No. 3
0099-2240/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Isolation of Vibrio vulnificus Serovar E from Aquatic Habitats in Taiwan

Carmen Amaro,1,* Lien-I Hor,2 Ester Marco-Noales,1 Teresa Bosque,1 Belén Fouz,1 and Elena Alcaide1

Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Valencia, Valencia 46100, Spain1 and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Republic of China2

Received 5 August 1998/Accepted 8 December 1998

The existence of strains of Vibrio vulnificus serovar E that are avirulent for eels is reported in this work. These isolates were recovered from water and oysters and differed from eel virulent strains in (i) fermentation and utilization of mannitol, (ii) ribotyping after HindIII digestion, and (iii) susceptibility to eel serum. Lipopolysaccharide of these strains lacked the highest molecular weight immunoreactive bands, which are probably involved in serum resistance.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Valencia, Valencia 46100, Spain. Phone: 34 6 3894389. Fax: 34 6 3864372. E-mail: carmen.amaro{at}uv.es.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, March 1999, p. 1352-1355, Vol. 65, No. 3
0099-2240/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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