Isolation of Vagococcus salmoninarum in rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum), broodstocks: Characterization of the pathogen

Veterinary Research Communications

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 553-562

  Ruiz Zarzuela, Ima ^a   Bias, I ^a   Girones O ^a   Ghittino, C ^b   Muzquiz J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b IZS State Veterinary Institute   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Diagnosis; Rainbow trout; Vagococcus salmoninarum

Indexed keywords

ACID; AGAR; AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; LINCOMYCIN; NEOMYCIN; OXYTETRACYCLINE; PENICILLIN G; STARCH; STREPTOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIOLOGY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; EPIDEMIC; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; GRAM POSITIVE COCCI; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; MORPHOLOGY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RAINBOW TROUT; SPAIN; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; VACCINATION; VAGOCOCCUS SALMONINARUM;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; FISH DISEASES; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; VAGOCOCCUS SALMONINARUM;

EID: 25144441235     PISSN: 01657380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11259-005-2493-8     Document Type: Article

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