Aeromonas caviae: ecologic adaptation in the intestinal tract of infants coupled to adherence and enterotoxin production as factors in enteropathogenicity.
Aeromonas caviae isolated from stools of diarrheic formula-fed infants and environmental sources produce acetic acid when grown in glucose broth, which is bactericidal (suicide phenomenon). A. caviae grows anaerobically in a minimal medium or under permissive conditions such as the intestinal tract of formula-fed infants. These isolates adhered to HEp-2 cells and produced a cytotoxic and a cytotonic enterotoxin which underscore their enteropathogenicity.
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Clinical Microbiology Laboratories, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, New York 10029-6574.
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D000085:Acetates / Q000378:metabolism; D019342:Acetic Acid; D000333:Aeromonas / Q000378:metabolism / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D000818:Animals; D001422:Bacterial Adhesion; D003603:Cytotoxins / Q000378:metabolism; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000382:microbiology*; D004768:Enterotoxins / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007225:Infant Food; D007422:Intestines / Q000382:microbiology*
D000085:Acetates; D003603:Cytotoxins; D004768:Enterotoxins; D019342:Acetic Acid