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VIBRIO FLUVIALIS
| Class: | Gamma Proteobacteria |
| Genus: | Vibrio |
| Species: | Vibrio fluvialis |
| Description: | Vibrio fluvialis is a halophilic Gram-negative bacterium, which has a curved cell morphology and polar flagella for motility. The important biochemical features of this organism include conversion of nitrate to nitrite, do not cleave L-lysine or ornithine, activate arginine dihydrolase, produce indole but not acetoin, ferment sucrose, D-mannitol, L-arabinose, maltose, trehalose, D-galactose, and D-galacturonate. |
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| Source: | occur widely in the aquatic milieu,mostly in the seas, estuaries and brackish waters. |
| Pathogenicity: | Vibrio fluvialis is a pathogen commonly found in coastal environs. Considering recent increase in numbers of diarrheal outbreaks and sporadic extraintestinal cases, V. fluvialis has been considered as an emerging pathogen. Many putative virulence factors have been reported, but its mechanisms of pathogenesis and survival fitness in the environment are yet to be explored. An Unusual Enteric Pathogen of Increasing Public Health Concern.A causal agent of gastroenteritis in humans. |
| Genbank: | NZ_CP014034.1(chr 1) [Genome] [Nucleotide] |
| Size (Mb): | 1.67 |
| GC %: | 49.7 |
| Genes: | 4,476 |
| CDS Number: | 4,333 |
| Reference: | Thandavarayan Ramamurthy, Goutam Chowdhury, Gururaja P. Pazhani, and Sumio Shinoda Vibrio fluvialis: an emerging human pathogen2 Front Microbiol. 2014; 5: 91. |
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