Table 1.
Distribution of Aeromonas spp. identified with molecular methods and recovered from different sites in association with human infections a.
| Species | Faeces | Wound | Blood | Respiratory Tract b | Urine | Peritoneal Dialysate | Bilis | Ascitic | Abscess | Other c Fluid | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. caviae | 446 | 43 | 147 | 11 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 690 (37.26) |
| A. veronii | 231 | 49 | 125 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 435 (23.49) |
| A. dhakensis d | 111 | 133 | 111 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 399 (21.54) |
| A. hydrophila | 69 | 96 | 45 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 242 (13.07) |
| A. media | 32 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 42 (2.27) | ||||||
| A. trota | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 (0.27) | ||||||
| A. taiwanensis | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 (0.32) | ||||||
| A. salmonicida | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 (0.21) | |||||||
| A. jandaei | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 (0.43) | |||||
| A. sanarellii | 1 | 4 | 5 (0.27) | ||||||||
| A. allosaccharophila | 2 | 1 | 3 (0.16) | ||||||||
| A. tecta | 2 | 2 (0.11) | |||||||||
| A. diversa | 2 | 2 (0.11) | |||||||||
| A. schubertii | 1 | 1 | 2 (0.11) | ||||||||
| A. bestiarum | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 (0.21) | ||||||
| A. popoffii | 1 | 1 (0.05) | |||||||||
| A. intestinalise | 1 | 1 (0.05) | |||||||||
| A. enterica e | 1 | 1 (0.05) | |||||||||
| Total | 905 | 341 | 439 | 37 | 27 | 32 | 32 | 12 | 8 | 20 | 1852 |
a Adapted from Figueras and Beaz-Hidalgo [5] and Latif-Eugenín [15] that included data obtained from different studies [38,54,66,68,89,144,153,160,161,162,163,164,165,166,167,168,169,170,171,172,173,174] and the results of 76 unpublished fecal isolates, with the addition of 865 new strains from several studies [15,175,176,177,178,179,180,181,182]. b 18 sputum strains; c Other includes: A. caviae (n = 4) of: vagina (3) and appendix (1); A. veronii (n = 2): sterile site (1) and ear fluid (1); A. dhakensis (n = 9): sterile site (6), joint fluid (1), eye (1), and bone (1); A. hydrophila (n = 4): ulcer exudate (1) and sterile site (3); A. trota (n = 1): cerebrospinal fluid (1); A. jandaei (n = 1): eye (1); d In many of the studies A. aquariorum was the name used for A. dhakensis; e Two new species of Aeromonas in the process of description.