TY - JOUR T1 - Ecology of pathogenic and non-pathogenic Vibrio parahaemolyticus on the French Atlantic coast. Effects of temperature, salinity, turbidity and chlorophyll a A1 - Deter,Julie A1 - Lozach,Solen A1 - Veron,Antoine A1 - Chollet,Jaufrey A1 - Derrien,Annick A1 - Hervio Heath,Dominique AD - IFREMER, Ctr Brest, Dept Environm Microbiol & Phycotoxines, Microbiol Lab, F-29280 Plouzane, France. AD - Univ Montpellier 2, Lab Ecosyst Lagunaires, UMR 5119, CNRS,IFREMER,IRD, F-34095 Montpellier, France. AD - IFREMER, Ctr Nantes, EMP Lab Natl Reference Microbiol Coquillages, F-44311 Nantes, France. AD - IFREMER, LERPC, Ctr Rochelle, F-17137 Lhoumeau, France. UR - https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.02136.x DO - 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.02136.x N2 - Vibrio parahaemolyticus is one of the principal bacterial causes for seafood-borne gastroenteritis in the world. In the present study, three sites located on the French Atlantic coast were monitored monthly for environmental parameters over 1 year. The presence of total and pathogenic V. parahaemolyticus in sediment, water and mussel samples was detected following enrichment by culture and real-time PCR (toxR gene, tdh, trh1 and trh2 virulence genes). Using generalized linear models, we showed that the presence of V. parahaemolyticus in water could be explained by a combination of mean temperature over the 7 days before the day of sampling (P < 0.001) and turbidity (P = 0.058). In mussels, an effect of chlorophyll a (P = 0.005) was detected when an effect of the mean salinity over the 7 days before sampling was significant for the sediment (P < 0.001). We did not detect any significant effect of phytoplanktonic blooms or of the number of culturable bacteria on V. parahaemolyticus presence. No sample was revealed positive for tdh. The presence of trh1 and trh2 was positively influenced by the mean temperature during the 2 days before the day of sampling (P < 0.001 and P = 0.032). The importance of these ecological parameters is discussed in relation to the biology of V. parahaemolyticus. Y1 - 2010/04 PB - Wiley-blackwell Publishing, Inc JF - Environmental Microbiology SN - 1462-2912 VL - 12 IS - 4 SP - 929 EP - 937 ID - 11420 ER -