G. Balakrish Nair, Thandavarayan Ramamurthy, Sujit Bhattacharya, Basabjit Dutta et al.
Vibrio parahaemolyticus is recognized as a cause of food-borne gastroenteritis, particularly in the Far East, where raw seafood consumption is high. An unusual increase in admissions of V. parahaemolyticus cases was observed at the Infectious Diseases Hospital in Calcutta, a city in the northeastern...
Bhaswati Sen, Basabjit Dutta, Somdatta Chatterjee, M.K. Bhattacharya et al.
Since 1996, infections caused by Vibrio parahaemolyticus have increased globally. Outbreak and/or sporadic cases of diarrhea caused by V. parahaemolyticus have been reported from India, Indonesia, Japan, Taiwan, the USA, Laos, Korea, Chile, Bangladesh, Russia, Thailand, Spain, France, and Vietnam. T...
Sumió Shinoda, Tomoko Nakagawa, Nobuyuki Hirakawa, Shin-ichi Miyoshi et al.
Vibrio cholerae isolates from environmental and clinical origins in the Bengal region in which epidemics of cholera break out periodically were analyzed with particular emphasis on the molecular epidemiological features. The presence of the virulence genes (ctxA, tcpA and toxR) in the isolates was a...