A 3-year environmental and clinical Vibrio vulnificus survey using simple-sequence repeats typing shows that V. vulnificus biotype 3 constitutes ≈21% of the bacterium population in tested aquaculture ponds as opposed to ≈86% of clinical cases. Simple-sequence repeats proved to be a useful epidemiologic tool, providing information on the environmental source of the pathogen.
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Broza, Y. Y., Danin-Poleg, Y., Lerner, L., Valinsky, L., Broza, M., & Kashi, Y. (2009). Epidemiologic study of Vibrio vulnificus infections by using variable number tandem repeats. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 15(8), 1282–1285. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1508.080839
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