Recovery of Streptococcus iniae from Diseased Fish Previously Vaccinated with a Streptococcus Vaccine

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 3756-3758

  Bachrach, Gilad ^a   Zlotkin, Amir ^b   Hurvitz, Avshalom ^c   Evans, Donald L ^d   Eldar, Avi ^e  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c Dan Fish Farms   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^e KIMRON VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STREPTOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; FISH DISEASE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; ONCORHYNCHUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; FISH DISEASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ONCORHYNCHUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCAL VACCINES; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0035434675     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.8.3756-3758.2001     Document Type: Article

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