Hirudo medicinalis, the medicinal leech, usually carries in its digestive tract a pure culture of
Aeromonas veronii bv. sobria. Such specificity is unusual for digestive tracts that are …

Aeromonas veronii biovar sobria, Aeromonas veronii biovar veronii, and Aeromonas
allosaccharophila are a closely related group of organisms, the Aeromonas veronii Group …

Infections associated with medicinal leech application are caused by Aeromonas
hydrophila, an organism that resides in the leech gut. We cultured the intestinal tracts of 25 …

Strictly blood-feeding leeches and their limited microbiota provide natural and powerful
model systems to examine symbiosis. Blood is devoid of essential nutrients and it is thought …

Mycetomal organs attached to the esophagus of hematophagous leeches which are known
to harbor endosymbiotic bacteria were removed from three species in the leech family …

ABSTRACT FDA-approved, postoperative use of leeches can lead to bacterial infections. In
this study, we used culture-dependent and culture-independent approaches to characterize …

From the crop of the medicinal leech, Hirudo medicinalis, only Aeromonas veronii bv. sobria
can be cultured consistently. Serum-sensitive A. veronii mutants were unable to colonize H …

Venous congestion in transplanted or reimplanted tissues remains a common and
challenging complication in reconstructive surgery. Medicinal leeches have consequently …

Surface bacterial flora, as well as homogenates, of medical leeches, Hirudo medicinalis and
Hirudinaria manillensis, were surveyed and the susceptibility of these isolates to 15 …

Background: There are at least three distinct European leech species used medicinally:
Hirudo medicinalis, H. orientalis, and H. verbana. Infection caused by leech microbiota is the …