Survival of fish-virulent strains of Photobacterium damselae subsp. damselae in seawater under starvation conditions

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 168, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 181-186

  Fouz, B ^a,b   Toranzo, A E ^a   Marco Noales, E ^b   Amaro, C ^b  

^a Univ Santiago C   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cellular change; Non culturable state; Photobacterium damselae subsp. damselae; Starvation; Vibrio damsela

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL SHAPE; CELL SURVIVAL; FISH; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; TEMPERATURE; TIME; VIBRIONACEAE;

ANIMALS; COLD; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CULTURE MEDIA; FISHES; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PHOTOBACTERIUM; SEAWATER; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PHOTOBACTERIUM; PHOTOBACTERIUM DAMSELAE SUBSP. DAMSELAE; VIBRIO;

EID: 0031732388     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00436-4     Document Type: Article

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