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J Clin Microbiol. 1987 November; 25(11): 2200-2203

Toxin production by Vibrio mimicus strains isolated from human and environmental sources in Bangladesh.

Department of Microbiology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

ABSTRACT

Vibrio mimicus has recently been isolated from aquatic environments of Bangladesh. A total of 125 of 300 environmental isolates, representing various biotypes, and 19 human isolates were tested for enteropathogenicity by using several models. Less than 1% of the environmental isolates and slightly more than 10% of the clinical isolates produced cholera toxin-like toxin. A significant percentage of the environmental isolates (25%) and of the human isolates (74%) induced fluid accumulation in ligated rabbit ileal loops. One environmental strain produced heat-stable toxin-like enterotoxin, whereas all of the human isolates did not. V. mimicus strains were divided into the following three groups on the basis of their activity in various toxin assays: (i) organisms which produce a heat-labile enterotoxin immunobiologically similar to cholera toxin, (ii) organisms which produce a heat-stable enterotoxin-like toxin, and (iii) organisms whose whole-cell cultures have some activity characteristic of heat-labile toxin (e.g., fluid accumulation in ligated rabbit ileal loops and positive permeability factor) but are not positive by the GM1 enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. One isolate from this group was able to elicit these results with cell-free culture filtrates. There was no correlation of biotype with toxic activity of V. mimicus isolates.

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