Genome Sequence of the Emerging Pathogen Aeromonas caviae

Abstract

Aeromonas caviae is a Gram-negative, motile and rod-shaped facultative anaerobe that is increasingly being recognized as a cause of diarrhea in children. Here we present the first genome sequence of an A. caviae strain that was isolated as the sole pathogen from a child with profuse diarrhea.

Functional Genomic Characterization of Virulence Factors from Necrotizing Fasciitis-Causing Strains of Aeromonas hydrophila

“…Likewise, A. caviae NM22 (stool) and NM33 (water) isolates were sequenced and used for comparison analysis along with sequences from two recently described A. hydrophila strains, E1 and E2, from a case of human wound infection (42,69). Additional comparisons were made with a number of previously published Aeromonas genomes (33,40,44,45,70).…”

The Family Aeromonadaceae

“…In contrast, several of such elements as well as plasmids have been reported in the genomes of other Aeromonas spp. (Reith et al 2008;Beatson et al 2011;Charette et al 2012). The future availability of additional genome sequences of A. hydrophila strains will help to investigate if the observed lack of mobile elements in ATCC 7966…”

“…In the genus Aeromonas, one genome each was released for the species A. hydrophila (Seshadri et al 2006), A. caviae (Beatson et al 2011), A. veronii (Li et al 2011), A. media (Chai et al 2012), and A. aquariorum (Wu et al 2012), whereas two genomes were so far published of A. salmonicida strains (Reith et al 2008;Charette et al 2012). In addition, one Aeromonas genome with unknown species identity was released (Chan et al 2012).…”

Immune response of shrimp (Penaeus monodon) against V. furnissii pathogen

“…However, other species of Vibrios capable of causing diarrheal disease in humans have received greater attention finally. These bactiera include Vibrios parahaemolyticus, a leading cause of food-borne disease outbreak in Japan and Korea [8] , such as Vibrios vulnificus, Vibrios alginolyticus, Vibrios damsela, Vibrios fluvialis, Vibrios furnissii (V. furnissii), Vibrios hollisae, Vibrios metschnikovii and Vibrios mimicus [9] . Recently, a number of reports have highlighted the pathogenic potential of Vibrios toward humans and marine animals (e.g.…”