Molecular Identification of Microbes: IV. Vibrio

Vibrios are ubiquitous and abundant in aquatic environment. A huge fraction of vibrios have also been detected in marine environments. Being of environmental origin, Vibrio species can cause the diseases like cholera and gastroenteritis. Thus detection of the species becomes utmost important when there is the need of disease diagnosis and the causative agent detection. Though there are many techniques available for the identification of Vibrio species manually, they are time-consuming procedures and not economical. Hence in this chapter, we have described the techniques of identification of Vibrio species at molecular level by house-keeping gene amplification and PCR fingerprinting techniques which will be economical as well as time saving for rapid identification to boost the diagnosis procedures.
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