Author | Lopes, Ana Carolina Amaral | |
Author | Martins, Luciano Moura | |
Author | Gatti, Maria Silvia Viccari | |
Author | Reis, Christiane Moura Falavina dos | |
Author | Hofer, Ernesto | |
Author | Yano, Tomomasa | |
Access date | 2016-03-17T15:11:36Z | |
Available date | 2016-03-17T15:11:36Z | |
Document date | 2015 | |
Citation | LOPES, Ana Carolina Amaral; et al. Diarrhea outbreak in Pernambuco, Brazil, associated with a heat-stable cytotoxic enterotoxin produced by Aeromonas caviae. Rev. Inst. Med. trop. S. Paulo, v.57, n.4, p. 349-351, July/Aug. 2015. | pt_BR |
ISSN | 1678-9946 | |
URI | https://www.arca.fiocruz.br/handle/icict/13198 | |
Language | eng | pt_BR |
Publisher | Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo | pt_BR |
Rights | open access | |
Title | Diarrhea outbreak in Pernambuco, Brazil, associated with a heat-stable cytotoxic enterotoxin produced by Aeromonas caviae | pt_BR |
Alternative title | O surto de diarreia em Pernambuco, Brasil é associado com uma enterotoxina citotóxica termo-estável produzida por Aeromonas caviae | pt_BR |
Type | Article | |
DOI | 10.1590/S0036-46652015000400013 | |
Abstract | In the present study enterotoxic and cytotoxic activities of twenty Aeromonas caviae strains were examined. They originated from
fecal specimens of patients with acute diarrhea during an outbreak in Brazil in 2004. Culture supernatants of fourteen strains (70%)
caused fluid accumulation in rabbit ileal intestinal loops and in suckling mice assays, and also showed a cytotoxic activity in Vero
and Caco-2 cells. The enterotoxic and cytotoxic factors were heat-stable after culture supernatants treatment at 100 ºC. The results
revealed that A. caviae strains produce a putative diarrheagenic virulence factor, a heat-stable cytotoxic enterotoxin that could be
linked to the diarrhea outbreak that took place in Brazil. | pt_BR |
Affilliation | Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Departamento de Genética, Evolução e Bioagentes. Campinas, SP, Brasil. | pt_BR |
Affilliation | Instituto Adolfo Lutz. Centro de Bacteriologia. Departamento de Doenças Infecciosas. São Paulo, SP, Brasil. | pt_BR |
Affilliation | Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Departamento de Genética, Evolução e Bioagentes. Campinas, SP, Brasil. | pt_BR |
Affilliation | Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Departamento de Bacteriologia. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. | pt_BR |
Affilliation | Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Departamento de Bacteriologia. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. | pt_BR |
Subject | Diarrhea outbreak | pt_BR |
Subject | Aeromonas caviae | pt_BR |
Subject | Cytotoxic enterotoxin | pt_BR |
Subject | Virulence factors | pt_BR |
Subject | Pernambuco | pt_BR |
Subject | Brazil | pt_BR |
DeCS | Fatores de Virulência | pt_BR |
DeCS | Citotoxinas | pt_BR |
DeCS | Aeromonas caviae | pt_BR |
DeCS | Diarreia | pt_BR |
DeCS | Brazil | pt_BR |