Possible transmission of Streptococcus iniae from wild fish to cultured marine fish

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 4065-4067

  Zlotkin, Amir ^a   Hershko, Hannah ^b   Eldar, Avi ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b KIMRON VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FISH; MARICULTURE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BASS; CLONE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA SEQUENCE; FISH DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS;

ANIMALIA; ARCHOSARGUS RHOMBOIDALIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DICENTRARCHUS LABRAX; HYPEROGLYPHE POROSA; POSIBACTERIA; SERRANIDAE; STREPTOCOCCUS INIAE;

EID: 0031685979     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.10.4065-4067.1998     Document Type: Article

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