1887

Abstract

Summary

One hundred and eleven isolates of from water and from human sources were identified to species level and tested for the production of cytotoxin. These results were correlated with the source of each isolate and, for those from human faeces, with the clinical history of diarrhoea. predominated in water, comprising 16 of 32 isolates; only one isolate from water was In human faecal samples 21 of 76 isolates were ; this was a significant difference. Cytotoxin producing strains were significantly more common in patients with no known cause for their gut symptoms. It is concluded that gastro-enteritis caused by is related to species and to production of cytotoxin.

Loading

Article metrics loading...

/content/journal/jmm/10.1099/00222615-22-4-311
1986-12-01
2024-04-27
Loading full text...

Full text loading...

/deliver/fulltext/jmm/22/4/medmicro-22-4-311.html?itemId=/content/journal/jmm/10.1099/00222615-22-4-311&mimeType=html&fmt=ahah

References

  1. Abrams E., Zierdt C. H., Brown J. A. 1971; Observations on Aeromonas hydrophila septicaemia in a patient with leukaemia. Journal of Clinical Pathology 24:491–492
    [Google Scholar]
  2. Agger W. A., McCormick J. D., Gurwith M. 1985; Clinical and microbiological features of Aeromonas hydrophila-associated diarrhea. Journal of Cinical Microbiology 21:909–913
    [Google Scholar]
  3. Asao Kinoshita Y., Kozaki S., Uemura T., Sakaguchi G. 1984; Purification and some properties of Aeromonas hydrophila hemolysin. Infection and Immunity 46:122–127
    [Google Scholar]
  4. Barer M. R., Millership S. E., Tabaqchali S. 1986; Relationship of toxin production to species in the genus Aeromonas. Journal of Medical Microbiology 22:303–309
    [Google Scholar]
  5. Bhat P., Shanthakumari S., Rajan D. 1974; The characterisation and significance of Plesiomonas shigelloides and Aeromonas hydrophila isolated from an epidemic of diarrhoea. Indian Journal of Medical Research 62:1051–1060
    [Google Scholar]
  6. Burke V., Robinson J., Berry R. J., Gracey M. 1981; Detection of enterotoxins of Aeromonas hydrophila by a suckling-mouse test. Journal of Medical Microbiology 14:401–408
    [Google Scholar]
  7. Burke V., Robinson J., Gracey M., Peterson D., Partridge K. 1984; Isolation of Aeromonas hydrophila from a metropolitan water supply; seasonal correlation with clinical isolates. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 48:361–366
    [Google Scholar]
  8. Catsareas M., Buttiaux R. 1965; Les Aeromonas dans les matieres fecales humaines. Annales de L’Institut Pasteur de Lille 16:85–88
    [Google Scholar]
  9. Chakraborty T., Montenegro M. A., Sanyal S. C., Bulling E., Timmis K. N. 1984; Cloning of enterotoxin gene from Aeromonas hydrophila provides conclusive evidence of production of a cytotonic enterotoxin. Infection and Immunity 46:435–441
    [Google Scholar]
  10. Chatterjee B. D., Neogy K. N. 1972; Studies on Aeromonas and Plesiomonas species isolated from cases of choleraic diarrhoea. Indian Journal of Medical Research 60:520–524
    [Google Scholar]
  11. Cumberbatch N., Gurwith M. J., BradleySack R., Brunton J. 1979; Cytotoxic enterotoxin produced by Aeromonas hydrophila: relationship of toxigenic isolates to diarrheal disease. Infection and Immunity 23:829–837
    [Google Scholar]
  12. Daily O. P. 1981; Association of Aeromonas sobria with human infection. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 13:769–777
    [Google Scholar]
  13. Gracey M., Robinson J. 1982; Aeromonas-associated gastroenteritis. Lancet 2:1304–1306
    [Google Scholar]
  14. Janda J. M., Skinner C. V., Calcaterra D. 1983; Phenotypic markers associated with gastrointestinal Aeromonas hydrophila isolates from symptomatic children. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 17:588–591
    [Google Scholar]
  15. Janda J. M., Reitano M., Bottone E. J. 1984; Biotyping of Aeromonas isolates as a correlate to delineating a species-associated disease spectrum. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 19:44–47
    [Google Scholar]
  16. Johnson W. M., Lior H. 1981; Cytotoxicity and suckling mouse reactivity of Aeronomas hydrophila isolated from human sources. Canadian Journal of Microbiology 27 1019; 1027:
    [Google Scholar]
  17. Lancet (Leading article) 1983; Mechanisms in enteropathogenic Escherichia coli diarrhoea. Lancet 1:1254–1256
    [Google Scholar]
  18. Ljungh A., Wadstrom T. 1977; Aeromonas hydrophila in diarrheal disease; detection of enterotoxin and biotyping of strains. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 6:96–100
    [Google Scholar]
  19. Ljungh A., Wretlind B., Molby R. 1981; Separation and characterisation of enterotoxin and two haemolysins from Aeromonas hydrophila. Acta Pathologica et Microbiologica Scandinavica Section B 89:387–397
    [Google Scholar]
  20. McCracken A. W., Barkley R. 1972; Isolation of Aeromonas species from clinical sources. Journal of Clinical Pathology 25:970–975
    [Google Scholar]
  21. Millership S. E., Curnow S. R., Chattopadhyay B. 1983; Faecal carriage rate of Aeromonas hydrophilia. Journal of Clinical Pathology 36:920–923
    [Google Scholar]
  22. Millership S. E., Chattopadhyay B. 1985; Aeromonas hydrophila in chlorinated water supplies. Journal of Hospital Infection 6:75–80
    [Google Scholar]
  23. Pitarangsi C. 1982; Enteropathogenicity of Aeromonas hydrophila and Plesiomonas shigelloides: prevalence among individuals with and without diarrhea in Thailand. Infection and Immunity 35:666–673
    [Google Scholar]
  24. Popoff M. Y., Coynault C., Kiredjian M., Lemelin M. 1981; Polynucleotide sequence relatedness among motile Aeromonas species. Current Microbiology 5:109–114
    [Google Scholar]
  25. Popoff M., Veron H. 1976; A taxonomic study of the Aeromonas hydrophila-Aeromonas punctata group.. Journal of General Microbiology 94:11–22
    [Google Scholar]
  26. Shread P., Donovan T. J., Lee J. V. 1981; A survey of the incidence of Aeromonas in human faeces. Society for General Microbiology Quarterly 8:184
    [Google Scholar]
  27. Turnbull P. C. B. 1984; Enterotoxin production in relation to taxonomic grouping and source of isolation of Aeromonas species. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 19:175–180
    [Google Scholar]
  28. Washington J. A. 1972; Aeromonas hydrophila in clinical bacterio-logic specimens. Annals of Internal Medicine 76:611–614
    [Google Scholar]
  29. Watson I. M., Robinson J. O., Burke V., Gracey M. 1985; Invasiveness of Aeromonas spp. in relation to biotype, virulence factors and clinical features. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 22:48–51
    [Google Scholar]
http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/journal/jmm/10.1099/00222615-22-4-311
Loading
/content/journal/jmm/10.1099/00222615-22-4-311
Loading

Data & Media loading...

This is a required field
Please enter a valid email address
Approval was a Success
Invalid data
An Error Occurred
Approval was partially successful, following selected items could not be processed due to error