TABLE 1.
Distribution of various Aeromonas spp. (and HGsa) in three sources
| Source | Total no. of isolates | No. of isolates (%) positive for:
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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A. hydrophila
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A. veronii biotype sobria (HG8) | A. caviae (HG4) | A. media (HG5) | A. eucrenophila (HG6) | A. trota (HG13) | A. jandeii (HG9) | Unknown Aeromonas sp. | |||
| HG1 | HG2 | |||||||||
| Diarrheal children | 115 | 11 (9.6) | 3 (2.6) | 21 (18.3) | 39 (33.9) | 14 (12.2) | 1 (0.9) | 25 (21.8) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.9) |
| Control children | 27 | 1 (3.7) | 0 (0.0) | 4 (14.8) | 11 (40.7) | 1 (3.7) | 1 (3.7) | 6 (22.2) | 1 (3.7) | 2 (7.4) |
| Environment | 120 | 18 (15.0) | 0 (0.0) | 16 (13.3) | 7 (5.8) | 2 (1.7) | 0 (0.0) | 72 (60.0) | 4 (3.3) | 1 (0.8) |
| Total | 262 | 30 (11.5) | 3 (1.2) | 41 (15.7) | 57 (21.8) | 17 (6.5) | 2 (0.8) | 103 (39.3) | 5 (1.9) | 4 (1.5) |
a
Also known as genomospecies.