Article
The incidence of virulence factors in mesophilic Aeromonas species isolated from farm animals and their environment.
Epidemiology and infection - 1 Oct 1990
Gray S J, Stickler D J, Bryant T N
Abstract excerpt
Sixty-one isolates of Aeromonas spp. from the faeces of pigs, cows and a variety of associated environmental sources were examined for the characteristics that are reputed to have roles in pathogenicity. Most isolates of Aeromonas hydrophila were cytotoxic (96.4%) and were capable of producing cell elongation factor (75%) and haemagglutinins (67.9%). In contrast few of the Aeromonas caviae isolates produced these...
Topics
- Aeromonas
- Animals
- Cattle
- Cell Line
- Congo Red
- Cytotoxins
- Enterotoxins
- Feces
- Hemagglutinins
- Humans
- Peptide Elongation Factors
- Phenotype