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Science 13 June 1969:
Vol. 164. no. 3885, pp. 1286 - 1287
DOI: 10.1126/science.164.3885.1286
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Vibrio parahaemolyticus from the Blue Crab Cailinectes sapidus in Chesapeake Bay

G. E. Krantz 1, R. R. Colwell 2, and E. Lovelace 2

1 U. S. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Biological Laboratory, Oxford, Maryland 21654
2 Department of Biology, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 20007

Strains of Vibrio parahaemolyticus, the etiologic agent of "Shirasu" food poisoning in Japan, were isolated from moribund blue crabs Callinectes sapidus and identified by biochemical and serological techniques.


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