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VIBRIO ALGINOLYTICUS
| Class: | Gamma Proteobacteria |
| Genus: | Vibrio |
| Species: | Vibrio alginolyticus |
| Description: | Vibrio alginolyticus is a Gram-negative marine bacterium. |
| Synonyms: | Oceanomonas alginolytica Miyamoto et al. 1961. |
| Source: | V.alginolyticus was first identified as a pathogen of humans in 1973. |
| Pathogenicity: | It is medically important since it causes otitis and wound infection.It is also present in the bodies of animals such as pufferfish, where it is responsible for the production of the potent neurotoxin, tetrodotoxin.V.alginolyticus was first identified as a pathogen of humans in 1973.It occasionally causes eye, ear and wound infections. |
| Genbank: | NC_022349.1 [Genome] [Nucleotide] |
| Size (Mb): | 3.33 |
| GC %: | 44.7 |
| Genes: | 4,638 |
| CDS Number: | 4,457 |
| Reference: | (1)Reilly GD1, Reilly CA, Smith EG, Baker-Austin C.Euro Surveill. 2011 Oct 20;16(42), Vibrio alginolyticus-associated wound infection acquired in British waters, Guernsey, July 2011,(2)T. Noguchi,D. F. Hwang,O. Arakawa,H. Sugita,Y. Deguchi,Y. Shida,K. Hashimoto,Vibrio alginolyticus, a tetrodotoxin-producing bacterium, in the intestines of the fish Fugu vermicularis vermicularis Marine Biology December 1987, Volume 94, Issue 4, pp 625–630, (3)Longo, Dan, et al. Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine 18th edition. McGraw-Hill Professional, 2011. |
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