Re-identification of Aeromonas isolates from chironomid egg masses as the potential pathogenic bacteria Aeromonas aquariorum

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 239-244

  Figueras, Maria José ^a   Beaz Hidalgo, Roxana ^a   Senderovich, Yigal ^b   Laviad, Sivan ^b   Halpern, Malka ^b  

^a INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIÓ SANITÀRIA PERE VIRGILI IISPV   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROMONAS; AEROMONAS PUNCTATA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CERATOPOGONIDAE; CHIRONOMIDAE; HEXAPODA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 79954594429     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2010.00216.x     Document Type: Article

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