| vibrio parahaemolyticus diarrhea, chile, 1998 and 2004. | analysis of clinical isolates of vibrio parahaemolyticus from outbreaks in chile in the cities of puerto montt in 2004 and antofagasta in 1998 indicated that 23 of 24 isolates from puerto montt and 19 of 20 from antofagasta belonged to the pandemic clonal complex that emerged in southeast asia in 1996. | 2005 | 15705337 |
| vibrio parahaemolyticus strains isolated during investigation of the summer 2006 seafood related diarrhea outbreaks in two regions of chile. | nine hundred cases of seafood related diarrhea were reported in the region of puerto montt, chile during the austral summer of 2006. this is the continuation of the large outbreaks associated with the consumption of seafood containing the vibrio parahaemolyticus serovar o3:k6 pandemic clonal group that arose last decade in chile. the initial outbreaks occurred during the summer of 1998 in antofagasta (23 degrees 39's 70 degrees 24'w). subsequently, outbreaks there were rare, but since 2004 outbr ... | 2007 | 17521760 |
| characterization by pcr of vibrio parahaemolyticus isolates collected during the 1997-1998 chilean outbreak. | between november 1997 and april 1998, several human gastroenteritis cases were reported in antofagasta, a city in the north of chile. this outbreak was associated with the consumption of shellfish, and the etiologic agent responsible was identified as vibrio parahaemolyticus. this was the first report of this bacterium causing an epidemic in chile. v. parahaemolyticus was the only pathogenic bacterium isolated from patient stools and from shellfish samples. these isolates were analyzed by polyme ... | 2002 | 12462995 |