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. 1980 Dec;40(6):1012–1016. doi: 10.1128/aem.40.6.1012-1016.1980

Effective ileal loop dose of Kanagawa-positive Vibrio parahaemolyticus.

R M Twedt, J T Peeler, P L Spaulding
PMCID: PMC291713  PMID: 7458308

Abstract

Groups of 16 rabbits per strain were injected with broth culture dilutions of three Kanagawa-positive Vibrio parahaemolyticus strains. The effective dose required to produce ileal loop dilatation in 50% of rabbits for pure cultures of strains 10136-76 and 553-72 from patients stools and NY 477 from incriminated food was 1.1 x 10(6), 2.6 x 10(5), and 7.7 x 10(6) organisms, respectively. When each of these cultures was admixed with greater than or equal to 10(9) Vibrio alginolyticus cells, the 50% effective dose was 1.2 x 10(6), 1.1 x 10(7), and 1.3 x 10(8) cells, respectively. Although concomitant injection of large numbers of competitive nonvirulent cells did not affect the 50% effective dose for strain 10136-76, that for the remaining two was increased 20- to 40-fold. The initiation of ileal loop response as estimated from sigmoidal plots of proportion of positive loops versus cell concentrations was given by as few as 10(2) cells of strain 553-72. Strains NY 477 and 10136-76 required approximately 10(5) cells. Half of the maximal response from these plots corresponded well with the 50% effective dose for the strains. These results suggest that pathogenicity of Kanagawa-positive V. parahaemolyticus strains may involve the participation of some virulence mechanisms in addition to the Kanagawa hemolysin.

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