Sequence Type 631 Vibrio parahaemolyticus, an Emerging Foodborne Pathogen in North America

J Clin Microbiol. 2017 Feb;55(2):645-648. doi: 10.1128/JCM.02162-16. Epub 2016 Dec 14.

Feng Xu^{1

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3}, Narjol Gonzalez-Escalona⁴, Julie Haendiges⁵, Robert A Myers⁵, Jana Ferguson⁶, Tracy Stiles⁶, Eric Hickey⁶, Michael Moore⁶, John Michael Hickey⁷, Christopher Schillaci⁷, Laurn Mank⁸, Kristin DeRosia-Banick⁹, Nicholas Matluk¹⁰, Amy Robbins¹⁰, Robert P Sebra¹¹, Vaughn S Cooper^{1

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12}, Stephen H Jones^{1

13}, Cheryl A Whistler^{1

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¹ Northeast Center for Vibrio Disease and Ecology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA.
² Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Biomedical Sciences, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA.
³ Genetics Graduate Program, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA.
⁴ Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland, USA narjol.gonzalez-escalona@fda.hhs.gov.
⁵ Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
⁶ Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁷ Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA.
⁸ Department of Public Health Laboratory, Rocky Hill, Connecticut, USA.
⁹ Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Aquaculture, State of Connecticut, Milford, Connecticut, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Health and Human Services, Augusta, Maine, USA.
¹¹ Icahn Institute and Department of Genetics & Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA.
¹² Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
¹³ Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA.

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Keywords: Vibrio parahaemolyticus; core genome multilocus sequence type analysis; emerging pathogen; genomics; molecular epidemiology.

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