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. 1987 Nov;25(11):2200–2203. doi: 10.1128/jcm.25.11.2200-2203.1987

Toxin production by Vibrio mimicus strains isolated from human and environmental sources in Bangladesh.

M A Chowdhury 1, K M Aziz 1, B A Kay 1, Z Rahim 1
PMCID: PMC269440  PMID: 3693548

Abstract

Vibrio mimicus has recently been isolated from aquatic environments of Bangladesh. A total of 125 of 300 environmental isolates, representing various biotypes, and 19 human isolates were tested for enteropathogenicity by using several models. Less than 1% of the environmental isolates and slightly more than 10% of the clinical isolates produced cholera toxin-like toxin. A significant percentage of the environmental isolates (25%) and of the human isolates (74%) induced fluid accumulation in ligated rabbit ileal loops. One environmental strain produced heat-stable toxin-like enterotoxin, whereas all of the human isolates did not. V. mimicus strains were divided into the following three groups on the basis of their activity in various toxin assays: (i) organisms which produce a heat-labile enterotoxin immunobiologically similar to cholera toxin, (ii) organisms which produce a heat-stable enterotoxin-like toxin, and (iii) organisms whose whole-cell cultures have some activity characteristic of heat-labile toxin (e.g., fluid accumulation in ligated rabbit ileal loops and positive permeability factor) but are not positive by the GM1 enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. One isolate from this group was able to elicit these results with cell-free culture filtrates. There was no correlation of biotype with toxic activity of V. mimicus isolates.

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