Abstract
In a territory-wide surveillance study, Laribacter hongkongensis was isolated solely from freshwater fish (60% of grass carps, 53% of bighead carps, and 25% of mud carps). Comparing the pulsed-field gel electrophoresis patterns of fish and patient isolates revealed that most patient isolates were clustered together, suggesting that some clones could be more virulent.
Publication types
-
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
MeSH terms
-
Animals
-
Animals, Domestic / microbiology
-
Carps / microbiology*
-
Disease Reservoirs
-
Ecosystem*
-
Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
-
Fish Diseases / microbiology
-
Fishes / microbiology
-
Food Microbiology
-
Gastroenteritis / epidemiology*
-
Gastroenteritis / microbiology
-
Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / epidemiology*
-
Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / microbiology
-
Humans
-
Male
-
Middle Aged
-
Neisseriaceae / classification
-
Neisseriaceae / genetics
-
Neisseriaceae / isolation & purification*
-
Neisseriaceae / pathogenicity