1. Characterization of mercury-resistant clinical Aeromonas species
- Author
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Abigail Pérez-Valdespino, Everardo Curiel-Quesada, Viridiana Lorena Villegas-Rodríguez, and Martin Celestino-Mancera
- Subjects
Diarrhea ,Operon ,Short Communication ,lcsh:QR1-502 ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Microbiology ,Polymerase Chain Reaction ,lcsh:Microbiology ,law.invention ,Nucleic acid thermodynamics ,Bacterial Proteins ,law ,Drug Resistance, Bacterial ,medicine ,clinical strains ,Humans ,Gene ,Polymerase chain reaction ,biology ,business.industry ,Nucleic Acid Hybridization ,mercury resistance ,Mercury ,biology.organism_classification ,Mercury (element) ,Aeromonas species ,Aeromonas ,chemistry ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections ,Oxidoreductases ,Oxidation-Reduction ,Transcription Factors - Abstract
Mercury-resistant Aeromonas strains isolated from diarrhea were studied. Resistance occurs via mercuric ion reduction but merA and merR genes were only detected in some strains using PCR and dot hybridization. Results indicate a high variability in mer operons in Aeromonas. To our knowledge, this is the first report of mercury-resistant clinical Aeromonas strains.
- Published
- 2013