Phylogenetic identification of Aeromonas simiae from a pig, first isolate since species description

Maria Conceição Fontes , Maria José Saavedra , Arturo Monera , Conceição Martins , Antonio Martínez-Murcia

The species was first described on the basis of two strains (CIP 107798 and CIP 107797) isolated from faeces of healthy monkeys () from Mauritius, which were kept in quarantine in the Centre for Primatology, Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, France. In the present study, during a survey to determine the prevalence of at three different pig slaughterhouses at north of Portugal, a single strain MDC2374 (out of 703 isolates) was identified as on the basis of 16S rDNA, and sequencing, confirming that traditional biochemical approaches are not resolute to identify rarely isolated species. To our knowledge, this is the first time since species description that is newly isolated and identified..

Mots clés: Phylogeny; 16S rDNA

Maria Conceição Fontes, Maria José Saavedra, Arturo Monera, Conceição Martins, Antonio Martínez-Murcia. Phylogenetic identification of Aeromonas simiae from a pig, first isolate since species description. Veterinary Microbiology, 2010, 142 (3-4), pp.313. ⟨10.1016/j.vetmic.2009.09.033⟩. ⟨hal-00587271⟩