title: Aeromonas aquariorum is widely distributed in clinical and environmental specimens and can be misidentified as Aeromonas hydrophila.
abstract: Genotypic characterization of 215 Aeromonas strains (143 clinical, 52 environmental, and 20 reference strains) showed that Aeromonas aquariorum (60 strains, 30.4%) was the most frequently isolated species in clinical and water samples and could be misidentified as Aeromonas hydrophila by phenotypic methods.
authors.affiliation: Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, PathWest Laboratory Medicine (WA), Locked Bag 2009, Nedlands WA 6009, Australia. max.aravena@health.wa.gov.au
authors.forename: Max
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Aravena-Román
authors.forename: Gerald B
authors.initials: GB
authors.lastname: Harnett
authors.forename: Thomas V
authors.initials: TV
authors.lastname: Riley
authors.forename: Timothy J J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Inglis
authors.forename: Barbara J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Chang
mesh_terms: D000333:Aeromonas / Q000145:classification* / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques / Q000379:methods*; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D003951:Diagnostic Errors / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005838:Genotype; D016905:Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / Q000382:microbiology*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D014871:Water Microbiology
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial