Aquatic Francisella-like bacterium associated with mortality of intensively cultured hybrid striped bass Morone chrysops x M. saxatilis

Diseases of Aquatic Organisms

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 135-145

  Ostland, V E ^a   Stannard, J A ^a   Creek, J J ^a   Hedrick, R P ^b   Ferguson, H W ^c   Carlberg, J M ^a   Westerman, M E ^a  

^a Kent SeaTech Corporation   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emergent disease in aquaculture; Francisella like bacterium; Hybrid striped bass; Intracellular bacterial disease

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DISEASE; BACTERIUM; DNA; FISH; HISTOLOGY; HYBRID; INOCULATION; LESION; MORTALITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMONID CULTURE;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; TAIWAN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FRANCISELLA; MORONE CHRYSOPS; MORONE SAXATILIS; NEGIBACTERIA; ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA; OREOCHROMIS; PARAPRISTIPOMA TRILINEATUM; TILAPIA;

EID: 33751268940     PISSN: 01775103     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/dao072135     Document Type: Article

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