Research Article

Virulence-Associated Genes and Antimicrobial Resistance of Aeromonas hydrophila Isolates from Animal, Food, and Human Sources in Brazil

Table 3

Virulence profiles of Aeromonas hydrophila isolated from human sources.

IsolateSourceVirulence profile

AhH1BloodExu
AhH2Diarrheic stoolsAct, aerA, Exu
AhH3Diarrheic stoolsaerA, Exu, hlyA
AhH4Diarrheic stoolsaerA, Exu, hlyA
AhH5Diarrheic stoolsaerA, Exu, hlyA
AhH6Diarrheic stoolsExu
AhH7Diarrheic stoolsaerA, Exu
AhH8Diarrheic stoolshlyA
AhH9Diarrheic stoolshlyA
AhH10Diarrheic stoolsAct, aerA, alt, Exu, hlyA
AhH11Diarrheic stoolsAct, aerA, Exu, hlyA
AhH12Diarrheic stoolsaerA, alt, Exu, hlyA
AhH13Diarrheic stoolsAlt, Exu, hlyA
AhH14Diarrheic stoolsAct, aerA, Exu
AhH15Diarrheic stoolsAct, alt, Exu
AhH16Diarrheic stoolsAlt, Exu, hlyA
AhH17Diarrheic stoolsAlt, Exu, hlyA
AhH18Diarrheic stoolsExu
AhH19Diarrheic stoolsaerA, Exu, hlyA
AhH20Diarrheic stoolsaerA, Exu, hlyA
AhH21Diarrheic stoolsaerA, Exu, hlyA
AhH22Diarrheic stoolsAlt, Exu
AhH23Diarrheic stoolsAlt, Exu
AhH24Diarrheic stoolsAlt, Exu
AhH25Diarrheic stoolsAct, aerA, alt, Exu, hlyA
AhH26Diarrheic stoolsAct, aerA, alt, Exu, hlyA
AhH27Diarrheic stoolsAlt, Exu
AhH28LungAlt, Exu, hlyA
AhH29SecretionExu
AhH30Synovial fluidaerA, alt, Exu, hlyA

act: cytotoxic enterotoxin; aerA: aerolysin; alt: heat-labile cytotonic enterotoxin; exu: DNase-nuclease; hlyA: hemolysin.