Detecção de Aeromonas spp. em amostras de água superficial e sedimento ao longo de um gradiente de salinidade no estuário do Rio Cocó - Ceará

Abstract

This research work was designed to detect the presence of Aeromonas in the Cocó River estuary, Fortaleza, Ceará State, Brazil. The database consisted of 30 samples of the river’s surface water and 30 samples of the river’s sooil, in the period from September, 2007 to April, 2008.. They were amenable, simultaneously, to counting of bacteria on Agar Gelatin Phosphate Salt (GSP) plus 20μg/mL of ampicilim (UFC/mL or UFC/g) The results showed dissemination of Aeromonas in the estuary. The counts for the water samples varied from 10 to 7,050 and from 25 to 38,500 UFC/mL at points A and B respectively; and from 100 to 37,500 UFC/g, and 1,200 to 43500 UFC/g at points A and B respectively. At point C, the counts for water and sediment were smaller than 10 UFC per ml or gram in all samples The occurrence of the greatest indices of Aeromonas in April, at the height of the rainy season, and the lowest in Septemer, at the height of the dry season, suggests there to be a probable seasonality of bacteria density in the studied environment. Among the 41 isolated strains were found the species A. caviae, A. sobria, A. trota, A. salmonicida and A. allossacharophyla. All the strains of Aeromonas sp. were found to be sensitive to cloranfenicol and ceftriaxona except for ampicillim, to which they showed 100% resistance.All the stirps showed resistance to two out of the nine tested antibiotics. After the Curing’ technique, the eritromicina resistance seems to be of plasmidian origin.