CHARACTERIZATION OF CYTOTOXIC, HEMOLYTIC AEROMONAS-CAVIAE CLINICAL ISOLATES AND THEIR IDENTIFICATION BY DETERMINING PRESENCE OF A UNIQUE HEMOLYSIN GENE

Authors
WANG G TYLER KD MUNRO CK JOHNSON WM
Citation
G. Wang et al., CHARACTERIZATION OF CYTOTOXIC, HEMOLYTIC AEROMONAS-CAVIAE CLINICAL ISOLATES AND THEIR IDENTIFICATION BY DETERMINING PRESENCE OF A UNIQUE HEMOLYSIN GENE, Journal of clinical microbiology, 34(12), 1996, pp. 3203-3205
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Microbiology
Journal title
Journal of clinical microbiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00951137
Volume
34
Issue
12
Year of publication
1996
Pages
3203 - 3205
Database
ISI
SICI code
0095-1137(1996)34:12<3203:COCHAC>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
Aeromonas caviae has recently been recognized as an important enteropa thogen, and its hemolysin is purported to be one of the virulence fact ors. In this study, a total of 80 clinical isolates of Aeromonas spp. were investigated by PCR with synthetic oligonucleotides targeting a c loned hemolysin-encoding sequence from an A, caviae isolate of clinica l origin. Of the 35 clinical A. caviae isolates tested, only 6 contain ed the target sequence.