“…A quick search was performed across three databases, Embase, Medline, Scopus, and Google Scholar, using the keywords: "prevalence OR incidence OR occurrence AND Vibrio parahaemolyticus AND Malaysia" to determine relevant original articles published between 2005 and 2023. Results from the search found that V. parahaemolyticus are most commonly isolated from seafood such as shellfish [39,41,43,62,[68][69][70][71][72][73][74][75][76] , shrimps [42,63,[68][69][70][77][78][79][80][81] , squids [68,69,72] , fishes [40,44,61,69,72,75,[82][83][84][85][86][87][88][89][90] , and sea cucumber [91] . The pathogen has also been isolated from vegetables [92,93] and environmental sources such as seawater [44,94] , coastal waters…”