AUTHOR=Ramamurthy Thandavarayan , Chowdhury Goutam , Pazhani Gururaja P., Shinoda Sumio 

TITLE=Vibrio fluvialis: an emerging human pathogen

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Microbiology

VOLUME=5

YEAR=2014

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/microbiology/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2014.00091

DOI=10.3389/fmicb.2014.00091

ISSN=1664-302X

ABSTRACT=<p><italic>Vibrio fluvialis</italic> is a pathogen commonly found in coastal environs. Considering recent increase in numbers of diarrheal outbreaks and sporadic extraintestinal cases, <italic>V. fluvialis</italic> has been considered as an emerging pathogen. Though this pathogen can be easily isolated by existing culture methods, its identification is still a challenging problem due to close phenotypic resemblance either with <italic>Vibrio cholerae</italic> or <italic>Aeromonas</italic> spp. However, using molecular tools, it is easy to identify <italic>V. fluvialis</italic> from clinical and different environmental samples. Many putative virulence factors have been reported, but its mechanisms of pathogenesis and survival fitness in the environment are yet to be explored. This chapter covers some of the major discoveries that have been made to understand the importance of <italic>V. fluvialis</italic>.</p>