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. 1996 Dec;34(12):3203–3205. doi: 10.1128/jcm.34.12.3203-3205.1996

Characterization of cytotoxic, hemolytic Aeromonas caviae clinical isolates and their identification by determining presence of a unique hemolysin gene.

G Wang 1, K D Tyler 1, C K Munro 1, W M Johnson 1
PMCID: PMC229483  PMID: 8940472

Abstract

Aeromonas caviae has recently been recognized as an important enteropathogen and its hemolysin is purported to be one of the virulence factors, In this study, a total of 80 clinical isolates of Aeromonas spp. were investigated by PCR with synthetic oligonucleotides targeting a cloned hemolysin-encoding sequence from an A. caviae isolate of clinical origin. Of the 35 clinical A. caviae isolates tested, only 6 contained the target sequence.

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