Antimicrobial susceptibilities of Aeromonas strains isolated from clinical and environmental sources to 26 antimicrobial agents

Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2012 Feb;56(2):1110-2. doi: 10.1128/AAC.05387-11. Epub 2011 Nov 28.

Abstract

We determined the susceptibilities of 144 clinical and 49 environmental Aeromonas strains representing 10 different species to 26 antimicrobial agents by the agar dilution method. No single species had a predominantly nonsusceptible phenotype. A multidrug nonsusceptible pattern was observed in three (2.1%) clinical strains and two (4.0%) strains recovered from diseased fish. Common clinical strains were more resistant than the corresponding environmental isolates, suggesting that resistance mechanisms may be acquired by environmental strains from clinical strains.

MeSH terms

  • Aeromonas / classification
  • Aeromonas / drug effects*
  • Aeromonas / genetics
  • Aeromonas / isolation & purification
  • Animals
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / pharmacology*
  • Fish Diseases / microbiology*
  • Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / epidemiology
  • Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / microbiology*
  • Humans
  • Microbial Sensitivity Tests
  • Water Microbiology*
  • Western Australia / epidemiology

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents