Table 2. Results of GS-PCR and MLST analysis of the 10 mostly commonly found serotypes of Vibrio parahaemolyticus isolates from patients with acute diarrhea, southern coastal region of China, 2007–2012*.
| Serotype | GS-PCR, n = 196 |
MLST, n = 127 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. positive, n = 110 | No. negative, n = 86 | No. isolates tested | ST (no. isolates) | CC | ||
| O3:K6 | 68 | 7 | 64 | ST3 (60), ST487 (1), ST489 (1), ST526 (1) | CC3 | |
| ST497 (1) | Singleton | |||||
| O4:K8 | 0 | 30 | 16 | ST265 (14), ST189 (1), ST438 (1) | CC345 | |
| O3:K29 | 0 | 14 | 13 | ST120 (11), ST480 (2) | CC120 | |
| O1:KUT | 6 | 15 | 3 | ST3 (3) | CC3 | |
| O1:K56 | 0 | 10 | 8 | ST8 (8) | CC8 | |
| O1:K36 | 9 | 0 | 7 | ST3 (7) | CC3 | |
| O4:K9 | 0 | 10 | 3 | ST332 (3) | Singleton | |
| O4:K68 | 10 | 0 | 5 | ST3 (5) | CC3 | |
| O5:K68 | 6 | 0 | 3 | ST3 (3) | CC3 | |
| O1:K25 | 11 | 0 | 5 | ST3 (4) | CC3 | |
| ST481 (1) | Singleton | |||||
*GS-PCR, group-specific PCR; MLST, multilocus sequence typing; ST, sequence type; CC, clonal complex.