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Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz
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88(4): 593-7, Oct.-Dec. 1993. ilus, tab
Artigo
em Inglês
| LILACS
| ID: lil-148847
RESUMO
Sixteen strains of Vibrio furnissii recovered from 16 Brazilian patients with diarrhea were screened for virulence-associated factors. All strains were non-invasive, non-fimbriated, and did not produce either enterotoxins or cholera-like toxin. In contrast, most were hemolytic on blood agar and their broth-culture supernatants damaged HeLa cell monolayers. These cytolysins, as accepted for other enteropathogenic members of the family Vibrionaceae, might be determinants of pathogenicity in V. furnissii-mediated enteritis