Virulence and enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus PCR of Vibrio alginolyticus strains isolated from Tunisian cultured gilthead sea bream and sea bass outbreaks

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 117, Issue 2-4, 2006, Pages 321-327

  Kahla Nakbi, A Ben ^a   Chaieb, K ^a   Besbes, A ^a   Zmantar, T ^a   Bakhrouf, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONASTIR   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Dicentrarchus labrax; ERIC PCR; Fish pathogens; LD50; Sparus aurata; Vibrio alginolyticus

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; NITROFURANTOIN; SPACER DNA; TETRACYCLINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONSENSUS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; EUROPEAN SEA BASS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; MOLECULAR TYPING; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; PISCICULTURE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEA BREAM; TUNISIA; VIBRIO ALGINOLYTICUS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AQUACULTURE; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BASS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FISH DISEASES; LETHAL DOSE 50; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEA BREAM; TUNISIA; VIBRIO ALGINOLYTICUS; VIBRIO INFECTIONS; VIRULENCE;

ARCHOSARGUS RHOMBOIDALIS; DICENTRARCHUS LABRAX; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; SERRANIDAE; SPARUS AURATA; VIBRIO ALGINOLYTICUS;

EID: 33748919060     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2006.06.012     Document Type: Article

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