Antacid increases survival of Vibrio vulnificus and Vibrio vulnificus phage in a gastrointestinal model

Article Abstract:

Antacids may promote the growth of Vibrio vulnificus in the gastrointestinal tract because they neutralize stomach acid. This eliminates the body's natural resistance to Vibrio because the organism cannot survive in an acidic environment.

Physiological aspects, Antacids

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Analysis of Vibrio vulnificus from market oysters and septicemia cases for virulence markers

Article Abstract:

Results demonstrate that randomly amplified polymorphic DNA coupled with polymerase chain reaction procedure fails to distinguish food and clinical Vibrio vulnificus isolates, from oysters and septicemia samples, with respect to molecular and virulence markers.

United States, Methods, Analysis, Genetic markers, Virulence (Microbiology), Gene amplification

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Distribution of Vibrio vulnificus phage in oyster tissues and other estuarine habitats

Article Abstract:

Phages lytic to Vibrio vulnificus were observed in estuarine waters, sediments, plankton, crustacea, molluscan shellfish and the intestines of finfish of the US Gulf Coast. However, there was no relationship between densities of V. vulnificus and its phages. V. vulnificus phages isolated from oysters did not lyse other mesophilic bacteria also isolated from oysters. Both V. vulnificus and its phages were observed in a variety of oyster tissues and fluids with lowest densities in the hemolymph and mantle fluid.

Research, Bacteriophages, Bacteriology, Oysters

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