Table 1.
Vibrio parahaemolyticus Strains from Outbreaks in 2012 in the United States and Spain and Closely Matching Pacific Northwest Isolates.*
| Strain | Year of Isolation and Characterization |
Source | Location | Serotype |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| F11–3A | 1988 | Environmental | Washington State | O4:K12 |
| 48057 | 1990 | Clinical | Washington State | O4:K12 |
| 10296 | 1997 | Clinical | Washington State | O4:K12 |
| 029–1(b) | 1997 | Environmental | Oregon | O4:K12 |
| 10329 | 1998 | Clinical | Washington State | O4:K12 |
| CDC_2012V-1109 | 2012 | Clinical | Oyster Bay Harbor, New York | O4:K12 |
| CDC_2012V-1108 | 2012 | Clinical | Oyster Bay Harbor, New York | O4:K12 |
| CDC_M12–108 G | 2012 | Clinical | Oyster Bay Harbor, New York | O4:KUT |
| CDC_2012V-1131 | 2012 | Clinical | California | O4:KUT |
| CDC_2012V-1132 | 2012 | Clinical | California | O4:K12 |
| CDC_2012V-1134 | 2012 | Clinical | Oyster Bay Harbor, New York | O4:KUT |
| G35 | 2012 | Clinical | Spain | O4:K12 |
| G36 | 2012 | Clinical | Spain | O4:K12 |
| G37 | 2012 | Clinical | Spain | O4:K12 |
*
All isolates, which were positive for thermostable direct hemolysin and thermostable direct-related hemolysin, were multilocus sequence type 36.