From 1995 through 1996, 163 fecal specimens of children aged under 5 years were analysed, 91 being from diarrhea feces and 72 without diarrhea. The material was collected in transport medium and submitted to the enrichment procedure at 4oC for 7 days. For the primary isolation starch ampicillin agar was used and incubated at 35oC for 18 to 24 hours. Twenty (20.9%) from the following specimens were isolated: Aeromonas A. caviae (7.7%), A. salmonicida salmonicida (6.6%), A. sobria (4.3%), A. hydrophila (2.2%) e Salmonicida achromogenes (1.1%). No Aeromonas spp was isolated from the 72 control subjects. The Aeromonas spp susceptibility to antimicrobian was greater with ciprofloxacin, being this susceptibility gradually diminished with chloranphenicol, gentamicin, ampicillin and erythromycin.
Aeromonas spp; Intestinal pathogens; Diarrhea
