Isolation and virulence profiles of Aeromonas spp. from different municipal drinking water supplies in Sweden

Prevalence, species differentiation, haemolytic activity, and antibiotic susceptibility of aeromonads in untreated well water

“…In the present study, A. hydrophila was the most common species representing nearly 60% of the aeromonads identified to the species level. These results are consistent with the findings of others (Krovacek et al 1992, Hanninen et al 1997, Kuhn et al 1997) who reported that A. hydrophila is the predominant species in freshwater and municipal drinking water supplies.…”

Identification of Motile Aeromonas Strains with the MicroScan WalkAway System in Conjunction with the Combo Negative Type 1S Panels

“…have been reported to cause a wide variety of human infections, including bacteremia, gastroenteritis, cellulitis, meningitis, soft-tissue infections, peritonitis, and bronchopulmonary infections (3,14,18,23,27,43). Aeromonads may possess several virulence factors, including cytotoxins, enterotoxins, and the ability to adhere to and invade the epithelial cells (14,21,22,28,35,36), and several attempts have been made to correlate the biochemical characteristics of Aeromonas species with toxigenicity (5,7,11,20,39,42).…”

Production of an enterotoxin by a gastro-enteritis-associated Aeromonas strain

“…Motile Aeromonas species are ubiquitous in nature and have been documented for a long time as autochthonous inhabitants of freshwater and estuarine environments. They can be isolated from many environmental locations, but they are mainly water-borne organisms found in virtually all waters, including chlorinated drinking water [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]. However, numerous reports on the incidence of aeromonads in cold-blooded animals, human clinical specimens, food and soil clearly demonstrate that the natural habitats of these organisms are not strictly limited to aquatic environments [12].…”