First isolation of Flexibacter maritimus from farmed Senegalese sole (Solea senegalensis, Kaup) in Spain

Bulletin of the European Association of Fish Pathologists

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 388-392

  Cepeda, Catalina ^a   Santos, Ysabel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

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