Indole-positive Vibrio vulnificus isolated from disease outbreaks on a Danish eel farm

Diseases of Aquatic Organisms

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 187-194

  Dalsgaard, Inger ^a   Høi, Lise ^a   Siebeling, Ronald J ^b   Dalsgaard, Anders ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fish pathogen; Identification; Vibrio vulnificus; Virulence

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN STRUCTURE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DISEASE DETECTION; EEL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; RIBOTYPE; SEROTYPE;

ANGUILLIFORMES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); VIBRIO VULNIFICUS;

EID: 0033605031     PISSN: 01775103     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/dao035187     Document Type: Article

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