A Case of Vibrio cholerae non-O1/non-O139 Gastroenteritis.
- Author:
Key Earn LEE
1
;
Ji Hyun CHO
Author Information
1. Department of Laboratory Medicine, Wonkwang University, College of Medicine, Iksan, Korea.
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Vibrio cholerae non-O1/non-O139;
Gastroenteritis;
Genotype;
PCR
- MeSH:
Alzheimer Disease;
Cholera;
Gastroenteritis*;
Genotype;
Humans;
Hypertension;
Korea;
Multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction;
Polymerase Chain Reaction;
Seawater;
Sepsis;
Vibrio cholerae*;
Vibrio*
- From:Korean Journal of Clinical Microbiology
2002;5(2):139-142
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Vibrio cholerae is an autochthonous inhabitant of estuarine and seawater environment and is a facultative pathogen for humans. V. cholerae non-O1/non-O139 strains are associated with gastroenteritis, septicemia and/or extraintestinal infections. But the reported cases of gastroenteritis by non-O1/non-O139 serotype, are rare in Korea. The authors isolated V. cholerae non-O1/non- O139 strain from a stool of a 67 year-old-woman who had suffered from diabetes, hypertension and Alzheimer disease and analyzed presence of toxin genes by multiplex PCR method.
