Molecular identification and determination of some virulence genes of Aeromonas spp. in fish and water from Turkish coastal regions

ÖZER, Selmin

Identification of Aeromonas species is known to be troublesome due to their phenotypic and genotypic heterogeneity. A total of 60 bacterial isolates from water and rainbow trout samples from Turkish coastal regions (Black Sea, Aegean Sea and Mediterranean Sea) were used for 16S rDNA-Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphisms (RFLP) analysis with AluI, MboI, NarI and PstI as restriction enzymes and molecular identification was eventually completed with PCR amplification of the fstA, A. salmonicida specific gene. In addition, the presence of 6 virulence genes (aer, ser, lip, gcat, nuc and laf) in the isolates was investigated using rapid hexaplex-PCR. The frequencies of the identified Aeromonas species were 38.33% for A. sobria, 23.33% for A. hydrophila, 10.0% for A. veronii and 26.67% for ...