Extended-spectrum ß-lactamase and carbapenemaseproducing Aeromonas species in wild animals from Portugal

• Autor(a) principal: Dias, C.
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Serra, C. R., Simões, Lúcia C., Simões, M., Martinez-Murcia, A., Saavedra, Luísa
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/32871
• topic: Science & Technology

Aeromonas are Gram-negative, facultative-anaerobic, non-spore-forming, glucose-fermenting, oxidase- and catalase-positive rods (Martin-Carnahan and Joseph 2005). Apart from fish, which are widely reported hosts for Aeromonads, insects, crustaceans, reptiles, birds and mammals were also found to harbour Aeromonas species, both in healthy and disease state (Pearson and others 2000, Turutoglu and others 2005, Evangelista-Barreto and others 2006, Ceylan and others 2009). An increase in resistance levels of the genus, particularly to -lactam antimicrobial agents, has been observed not only in clinical isolates, but also in environmental strains (Saavedra and others 2004, 2007).