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. 2011 Aug;49(8):3006-8.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.00472-11. Epub 2011 Jun 22.

Aeromonas aquariorum is widely distributed in clinical and environmental specimens and can be misidentified as Aeromonas hydrophila

Max Aravena-Román  1 , Gerald B Harnett, Thomas V Riley, Timothy J J Inglis, Barbara J Chang
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Aeromonas aquariorum is widely distributed in clinical and environmental specimens and can be misidentified as Aeromonas hydrophila

Max Aravena-Román et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2011 Aug.

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.

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Concatenated neighbor-joining phylogenetic tree showing the position of A. aquariorum strains derived from the rpoD and gyrB sequences.
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