| vibrio parahaemolyticus in shellfish and clinical samples during two large epidemics of diarrhoea in southern chile. | large epidemics of diarrhoea associated with seafood consumption and vibrio parahaemolyticus occurred during the austral summers of 2004 and 2005 in the environs of puerto montt, chile (41 degrees 29's 72 degrees 24'w). there are no reports of v. parahaemolyticus infections before 2004 in this region, their absence being explained by the low ocean temperatures which seldom reach 16 degrees c. we analysed v. parahaemolyticus obtained from shellfish and clinical samples during epidemics. isolates ... | 2006 | 16584479 |