Pathogenic Vibrio, Aeromonas and Arcobacter spp. associated with copepods in the Straits of Messina (Italy)

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 600-606

  Gugliandolo, C ^a   Irrera, G P ^a   Lentini, V ^a   Maugeri, T L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTEROTOXIN; HEMOLYSIN; SEA WATER;

BACTERIUM; COASTAL WATER; CRUSTACEAN; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PLANKTON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AEROMONAS; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARCOBACTER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COASTAL WATERS; COMMENSALISM; COPEPOD; CYTOTOXICITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; MALE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEMBRANE FILTER; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PH MEASUREMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALINITY; SEROTYPING; TEMPERATURE; VIBRIO; VIRULENCE; ZOOPLANKTON;

AEROMONAS; ANIMALS; ARCOBACTER; BASE SEQUENCE; COPEPODA; ITALY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; VIBRIO; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; STRAIT OF MESSINA;

AEROMONAS; ARCOBACTER; COPEPODA; VIBRIO;

EID: 40849140741     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2007.12.001     Document Type: Article

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