Agar culture of Piscirickettsia salmonis, a serious pathogen of farmed salmonid and marine fish

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 278, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 43-47

  Mikalsen, Jarle ^a   Skjærvik, Olaf ^b   Wiik Nielsen, Jannicke ^a   Wasmuth, Marit A ^a   Colquhoun, Duncan J ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b VESO Vikan AkvaVet   (Norway)

Author keywords

Agar; Broth; Culture; Extracellular; In vitro; Piscirickettsia salmonis

Indexed keywords

AGAR; CYSTEINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLORFENICOL; KANAMYCIN; OXOLINIC ACID; OXYTETRACYCLINE; PENICILLIN G; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC SALMON; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTIC CELL; FISH; IN VITRO STUDY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PISCIRICKETTSIA SALMONIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONID; VIRULENCE;

AGAR; ANIMALS; CULTURE MEDIA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FISH DISEASES; FISHERIES; PISCIRICKETTSIA; PISCIRICKETTSIACEAE INFECTIONS; SALMO SALAR;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PISCIRICKETTSIA SALMONIS; SALMO SALAR; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 36749043772     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.00977.x     Document Type: Article

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