title: Antimicrobial susceptibilities of Aeromonas strains isolated from clinical and environmental sources to 26 antimicrobial agents.
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.
authors: Microbiology and Immunology, School of Biomedical, Biomolecular and Chemical Sciences, the University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia. max.aravena@health.wa.gov.au
authors: Max
authors: M
authors: Aravena-Román
authors: Timothy J J
authors: TJ
authors: Inglis
authors: Barbara
authors: B
authors: Henderson
authors: Thomas V
authors: TV
authors: Riley
authors: Barbara J
authors: BJ
authors: Chang
mesh_terms: D000333:Aeromonas / Q000145:classification / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D000818:Animals; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D005393:Fish Diseases / Q000382:microbiology*; D016905:Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D008826:Microbial Sensitivity Tests; D014871:Water Microbiology; D014904:Western Australia / Q000453:epidemiology
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents