Aeromonas aquariorum Is Widely Distributed in Clinical and Environmental Specimens and Can Be Misidentified as Aeromonas hydrophila

DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00472-11

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Fig. 1.
Concatenated neighbor-joining phylogenetic tree showing the position of A. aquariorum strains derived from the rpoD and gyrB sequences.

Table 1.

Distribution of Aeromonas spp. in clinical and environmental specimens

Species	No. of specimens (% of total)	No. (%) of clinical specimens					No. (%) of environmental specimens
Species	No. of specimens (% of total)	Wound	Stool	Blood	Miscellaneous^{^a}	Total	Water	Fish	Crab	Total
A. allosaccharophila	1 (0.5)		1 (3.0)			1 (0.6)
A. aquariorum	60 (30.7)	22 (40.7)	4 (12.1)	3 (9.0)	5 (27.1)	34 (23.8)	24 (54.5)	2 (28.5)		26 (50.0)
A. bestiarum	1 (0.5)		1 (3.0)			1 (0.6)
A. caviae	36 (18.4)	5 (9.2)	11 (33.3)	11 (32.2)	7 (30.4)	34 (23.8)	1 (2.2)	1 (14.2)		2 (3.8)
A. hydrophila	38 (19.4)	16 (29.6)	2 (6.0)	7 (21.2)	8 (34.7)	33 (23.0)	4 (9.0)	1 (14.2)		5 (9.6)
A. jandaei	3 (1.5)						2 (4.5)	1 (14.2)		3 (5.7)
A. media	3 (1.5)		1 (3.0)	1 (3.0)		2 (1.3)		1 (14.2)		1 (1.9)
A. salmonicida	2 (1.0)	1 (1.8)				1 (0.6)			1	1 (1.9)
A. schubertii	1 (0.5)	1 (1.8)				1 (0.6)
A. veronii bv. sobria	49 (25.1)	9 (16.7)	14 (42.4)	10 (30.3)	3 (13.0)	36 (25.1)	12 (27.2)	1 (14.2)		13 (25.0)
Aeromonas sp.	1 (0.5)						1 (2.2)			1 (1.9)
Total	195	54	33	33	23	143	44	7	1	52

↵a Miscellaneous specimens include A. aquariorum from bone chip (1), urine (2), sputum (1), and unknown (1) specimens, A. caviae from dialysis fluid (1), peritoneal fluid (1), bile (2), T-tube tip (1), and unknown (2) specimens, A. hydrophila from tissue (1), sputum (2), biliary shunt (1), bile (1), pancreatic cyst (1), drain fluid (1), and mortuary (1) specimens, and A. veronii bv. sobria from sputum (2) and appendix (1) specimens.