Publication details
Applicability of fatty acid composition for separating clinical and environmental Aeromonas spp.
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| Year of publication | 2017 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Aeromonads were and are isolated from every type of environment including different types of waters, soils, food or biotic sources such as samples from animals or human clinical samples (eg. stools, wounds, swabs, inner organs). So far, only some species of the genus Aeromonas were undoubtfully associated with human infections [1,2,3]. Interestingly, strains of these species have been also isolated as harmless members of human microbiota or from environment as such [1,2,3]. From epidemiological point of view, it is essential to be able to distinguish clinically relevant strains from those which might represent only contaminants in clinical samples. Fatty acid methyl ester analysis (FAME) was described as a rapid tool which can be used for this purpose [4]. Its sensitivity and reliability increased with improvements in the FAME extraction and analysis protocols in past years. Aim of this study was to determine, whether the FAME analysis might be helpful for separating clinical and environmental Aeromonas spp. |