Publication: Genetic diversity of Vibrio parahaemolyticus strains isolated from farmed pacific white shrimp and ambient pond water affected by acute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease outbreak in Thailand
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2015-12-08
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FEMS Microbiology Letters. Vol.363, No.2 (2015)
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Kaknokrat Chonsin, Shigeaki Matsuda, Chonchanok Theethakaew, Toshio Kodama, Jiraphan Junjhon, Yasuhiko Suzuki, Orasa Suthienkul, Tetsuya Iida Genetic diversity of Vibrio parahaemolyticus strains isolated from farmed pacific white shrimp and ambient pond water affected by acute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease outbreak in Thailand. FEMS Microbiology Letters. Vol.363, No.2 (2015). doi:10.1093/femsle/fnv222 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/35323
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Genetic diversity of Vibrio parahaemolyticus strains isolated from farmed pacific white shrimp and ambient pond water affected by acute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease outbreak in Thailand
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© FEMS 2015. All rights reserved. Acute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease (AHPND) is an emerging shrimp disease that causes massive die-offs in farmed shrimps. Recent outbreaks of AHPND in Asia have been causing great losses for shrimp culture and have become a serious socioeconomic problem. The causative agent of AHPND is Vibrio parahaemolyticus, which is typically known to cause food-borne gastroenteritis in humans. However, there have been few reports of the epidemiology of V. parahaemolyticus AHPND strains, and the genetic relationship among AHPND strains is unclear. Here, we report the genetic characterization of V. parahaemolyticus strains isolated from AHPND outbreaks in Thailand. We found eight isolates from AHPND-suspected shrimps and pond water that were positive for AHPND markers AP1 and AP2. PCR analysis confirmed that none of these eight AP-positive AHPND strains possesses the genes for the conventional virulence factors affecting to humans, such as thermostable direct hemolysin (TDH), TDH-related hemolysin (TRH) and type III secretion system 2. Phylogenetic analysis by multilocus sequence typing showed that the AHPND strains are genetically diverse, suggesting that AHPND strains were not derived from a single genetic lineage. Our study represents the first report of molecular epidemiology of AHPND-causing V. parahaemolyticus strains using multilocus sequence typing, and provides an insight into their evolutionary mechanisms.