Determination of several potential virulence factors in Vibrio spp. isolated from sea water

An Overview of the Immunological Defenses in Fish Skin

“…Vibrio sp. infections are still complex and related to several factors including cytotoxins, enterotoxins, and lytic enzymes [276,277]. Adhesion ability to human epithelial cell lines (Hep-2 and Caco-2) and fish mucus [278] seem to be diffused among Vibrio alginolyticus strains and may represent a potential infection risk for aquatic stressed animals [279,280].…”

Occurrence, Antibiotic Resistance and Pathogenicity of Non-O1 Vibrio cholerae in Moroccan Aquatic Ecosystems: A Review

“…by Baffone et al (2001) demonstrated that species were adhesive, with percentages ranging from 40% for V. fluvialis to 55-80% for V. alginolyticus, non-O1 V. cholerae and V. parahaemolyticus.…”

Vibrio vulnificus

“…The bacterium occurs in coastal and estuarine waters worldwide, especially in temperate zones; and isolations from water and/or infections due to this bacterium have been reported from Europe (e.g. Germany, Holland, Belgium, Italy, and Spain) (Baffone et al, 2001;Mertens et al, 1979;Torres et al, 2002;Veenstra et al, 1993Veenstra et al, , 1994, Scandinavia (e.g. Bock et al, 1994;Dalsgaard et al, 1994;Hø i et al, 1998;Melhus et al, 1995), South America (Matté et al, 1994), the far East (Chan et al, 1986;Venkateswaran et al, 1989), and the South Pacific (Upton & Taylor, 2002), as well as the northwestern (Kelly & Stoh, 1988), western (Kaysner et al, 1987), northeastern (Jones & Summer-Brason, 1998;O'Neill et al, 1990), eastern (Heidelberg et al, 2002a,b;Pfeffer et al, 2003), and Gulf Coast (Roberts et al, 1982) states of the United States.…”