Identification and antimicrobial susceptibility of Aeromonas spp. isolated from stool samples of Brazilian subjects with diarrhoea and healthy controls

Abstract

Identification and antimicrobial susceptibility of Aeromonas spp. isolated from stool samples of Brazilian subjects with diarrhoea and healthy controls

Impact of Aeromonas and diarrheagenic Escherichia coli screening in patients with diarrhea in Paraná, southern Brazil

“…Interestingly, the frequency of Aeromonas found here is significantly higher (p = 0.003) than that found in our previous study using stool samples from patients who attended private clinical laboratories, of whom 2.6% were found to have Aeromonas infections [23]. It is known that development of infectious diarrhea is related to environmental conditions including poor sanitation and hygiene, unsafe water supplies, poor education, and inadequate sewage disposal [2].…”

“…Their incidence varies widely around the world, from 0.04% in Crete [17], 1.7% in Israel [18], 2% in Sweden [19], 4.8% in Switzerland [20], 3.1% to 6.5% in India [21], 3.9% to 25.9% and 3.2% to 32.3% in Bangladesh and Pakistan, respectively [22], and from 2.6% to 19.5% in Brazil [23][24][25].…”

Bacterial Enteropathogens and Risk Factors Associated with Childhood Diarrhea

“…was detected in both diarrheal cases and control group in considerable proportions, which means that a considerable number of cases have a silent infection with no signs of diarrhea. However, the role of Aeromonas spp as significant diarrheal disease agent is controversial, which can be linked to acute diarrhea in some controlled studies but not others [14,15].…”

Aeromonas spp. clinical microbiology and disease

“…and Plesiomonas. 102 Aeromonas strains were isolated from 18 of the 680 patients (w2.6%) suffering with diarrhoea with patients ranging from 1 to 82 years of age. In the control group, Aeromonas was also isolated from one of the healthy samples (w0.33%).…”