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The impact of water intrusion on pathogenic Vibrio species to inland brackish waters of China
Wang, Q.; Fu, S.; Yang, Q.; Hao, J.; Zhou, C.; Liu, Y. (2020). The impact of water intrusion on pathogenic Vibrio species to inland brackish waters of China. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17(18): 6781. https://hdl.handle.net/10.3390/ijerph17186781
In: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. MDPI AG: Basel. ISSN 1660-4601, more
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Keywords
    Vibrio cholerae Pacini, 1854 [WoRMS]; Vibrio parahaemolyticus (Fujino, Okuno, Nakada, Aoyama, Fukai, Mukai & Ueho, 1951) Sakazaki, Iwanami & Fukumi, 1963 [WoRMS]
    Brackish water
Author keywords
    seawater intrusion; Vibrio parahaemolyticus; Vibrio cholerae; MLST; virulence factor

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  • Wang, Q.
  • Fu, S.
  • Yang, Q., more
  • Hao, J.
  • Zhou, C.
  • Liu, Y.

Abstract
    The estuary is the ecological niche of pathogenic Vibrio spp. as it provides abundant organic and inorganic nutrients from seawater and rivers. However, little is known about the ecology of these Vibrio species in the inland brackish water area. In this study, their co-occurrence and relationships to key environmental constraints (salinity and temperature) in the Hun-Tai River of China were examined using the most probable number polymerase chain reaction (MPN-PCR) approach. We hereby report 2-year continuous surveillance based on six water indices of the Hun-Tai River. The results showed that seawater intrusion maximally reached inland as far as 26.5 km for the Hun-Tai River. Pathogenic Vibrio spp. were detected in 21.9% of the water samples. In particular, V. cholerae, V. parahaemolyticus, and V. vulnificus were isolated in 10 (10.4%), 20 (20.8.5%), and 2 (2.08%) samples, respectively. All V. parahaemolyticus strains were tdh gene negative, 10% were positive for the trh gene. Multi-locus sequence typing (MLST) divided V. parahaemolyticus strains into 12 sequence types (STs) for the Hun-Tai River. Five STs were respectively present in various locations along the Hun-Tai River. The PCR assay for detecting six virulence genes and Vibrio seventh pandemic island I and II revealed three genotypes in 12 V. cholerae isolates. The results of our study showed that seawater intrusion and salinity have profound effects on the distribution of pathogenic Vibrio spp. in the inland river, suggesting a potential health risk associated with the waters of the Hun-Tai River used for irrigation and drinking.

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