- Source: Vibrio fluvialis
Vibrio fluvialis is a water-borne bacterium first isolated from patients with severe diarrhoea in Bahrain in the 1970s by A. L. Furniss and his colleagues, and is considered to be an emerging pathogen with the potential to have a significant impact on public health. Upon discovery, this organism was considered to be similar to both Vibrio and Aeromonas species, but was ultimately determined to be more closely related to Vibrio. V. fluvialis can be found in salt waters globally and also has the potential to infect both humans and a variety of crustaceans.
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Further reading
Eyisi, Onyedikachukwu A.L.; Nwodo, Uchechukwu U.; Iroegbu, Christian U. (September 2013). "Distribution of Vibrio species in Shellfish and Water Samples Collected from the Atlantic Coastline of South-East Nigeria". Journal of Health, Population, and Nutrition. 31 (3): 314–320. doi:10.3329/jhpn.v31i3.16822. PMC 3805880. PMID 24288944.
Lu, Xin; Liang, Weili; Wang, Yunduan; Xu, Jialiang; Zhu, Jun; Kan, Biao (March 2014). "Identification of Genetic Bases of Vibrio fluvialis Species-Specific Biochemical Pathways and Potential Virulence Factors by Comparative Genomic Analysis". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 80 (6): 2029–2037. Bibcode:2014ApEnM..80.2029L. doi:10.1128/AEM.03588-13. PMC 3957645. PMID 24441165.
Ramamurthy, Thandavarayan; Chowdury, Goutam; Pazhani, Gururaja P.; Shinoda, Sumio (7 March 2014). "Vibrio fluvialis: an emerging human pathogen". Frontiers in Microbiology. 5: 91. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2014.00091. PMC 3948065. PMID 24653717.
External links
Type strain of Vibrio fluvialis at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
