Forty-two episodes of Vibrio parahaemolyticus infections were detected in Beira, Mozambique, from January to May 2004. The majority of the isolates (81%) belonged to the pandemic serovars (O3:K6 and O4:K68) of V. parahaemolyticus. The pandemic serovars were positive by group-specific PCR (GS-PCR) and a PCR specific for open reading frame ORF8 (ORF8-PCR), which are molecular markers of the pande...

In patients with diarrhea caused by Vibrio parahaemolyticus, antibody-secreting cell responses to thermostable direct hemolysin (TDH), lipopolysaccharide (LPS), and whole-cell bacteria were seen. TDH- and LPS-specific responses were seen in serum samples, and immunoglobulin A antibody responses were observed in stool. Levels of C-reactive protein and nitric oxide metabolites increased in the sy...

Vibrio parahaemolyticus is one of the principal bacterial causes for seafood-borne gastroenteritis in the world. In the present study, three sites located on the French Atlantic coast were monitored monthly for environmental parameters over 1 year. The presence of total and pathogenic V. parahaemolyticus in sediment, water and mussel samples was detected following enrichment by culture and real...

The bacterium, Vibrio parahaemolyticus was isolated from 776 patients at Hat Yai Hospital in Southern Thailand from 2006 to 2010. 51.3-73.6% of the isolates were tdh (+) trh (-) and Group-specific PCR positive pandemic strains. A comparison of the number of V. parahaemolyticus isolates in this study and that from the same hospital in 2000-2005 indicates that this region of Thailandis endemic fo...

This paper examines the relationship between fiscal and external balances in MENA oil versus non-oil countries context of twin deficits hypothesis (TDH) using Panel Vector Autoregression- Generalized Methods Moments PVAR GMM estimation, Granger Causality IRFs. The essence this analysis is to assess vulnerability price dynamics regional geopolitics region. Results show that a twin-deficit proble...

Performance-intensity functions for PB word lists were run on 19 normal-hearing subjects and 15 subjects with sensorineural hearing losses. Comparisons were made between standard supra-aural earphones (TDH-49P) and insert phones (ER-3A). Results showed that, at least for the higher sensation levels where word recognition tests are usually performed, the phones may be used interchangeably. Using...

Tension-dependent (TDH) and tension-independent heat (TIH) release were measured during single isovolumetric contractions in the arterially perfused rat ventricle. Under perfusion with 7 mM K-0.5 mM Ca, TDH showed only one component (H3), whereas TIH could be divided into two components (H1 and H2) of short evolution (similar to the classically identified activation heat) and one component (H4)...

This study was aimed for the detection of Vibrio parahaemolyticus by biochemical and molecular methods in seafood samples collected from the markets of Cochin located at the southwest coast of India. A total of seventy-two V. parahaemolyticus cultures were isolated by selecting sucrose and cellobiose non-fermenting colonies. All the biochemically confirmed strains were found to have 368-bp toxR...