Table 3.

Chronology of appearance of pandemic V. parahaemolyticus serotypes.

Yellow marker indicates the year in which pandemic serotype was detected, the number in the yellow marker represent number of isolates; The green marker indicates that it's uncertain whether or not a pandemic serotype was detected in the corresponding year, in the original literature, the author only gave a time range; ^*The number in the brackets means the serotypes that we cannot know whether or not they were identified in the corresponding years.