[Isolation and identification of species from the genera Aeromonas, Vibrio, and Plesiomonas from extraintestinal samples in Cuba].

Extraintestinal infections caused by the genera Aeromonas, Vibrio and Plesiomonas have high morbidity and mortality rates in different areas of world. From January 2002 to December 2003, the National Reference Laboratory for Acute Diarrhoeal Diseases of the Pedro Kourí Tropical Medicine Institute received 95 gram-negative, facultative anaerobic, oxidase positive bacilli strains from different extraintestinal specimen (blood, ear exudates, infected wounds, conjunctive exudates, urine, and catheters, among others) sent by different provincial laboratories along the country. Aeromonas caviae, Aeromonas veronii bv sobria, Aeromonas jandaei, Vibrio cholerae no-O1, Vibrio vulnificus, Vibrio fluvialis and Plesiomonas shigelloides were the species most frequently found in the sample analysed.