Isolation of Edwardsiella ictaluri from channel catfish by tissue homogenization, filtration and enzyme linked immunosorbent assay

Disease of Aquatic Organisms

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 19-24

  Earlix, Dean ^a   Plumb, John A ^a   Rogers, W A ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial detection; Channel catfish; Edwardsiella ictaluri

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EDWARDSIELLA ICTALURI; ICTALURUS PUNCTATUS;

EID: 0030450802     PISSN: 01775103     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/dao027019     Document Type: Article

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