Flavobacterium psychrophilum associated with septicaemia and necrotic myositis in Atlantic salmon Salmo salar: A case report

Diseases of Aquatic Organisms

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 37-46

  Nilsen, Hanne ^a   Johansen, Renate ^a   Colquhoun, Duncan John ^a   Kaada, Inge ^b   Bottolfsen, Kirsten ^a   Vågnes, Øyvind ^a   Olsen, Anne Berit ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b VestVet A/S   (Norway)

Author keywords

16S rRNA allele; Atlantic salmon; Flavobacterium psychrophilum; Necrotic myositis; Septicaemia

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; RNA 16S;

ALLELE; BACTERIAL DISEASE; FAT; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOASSAY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MORTALITY; MUSCLE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMONID; SMOLT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC SALMON; EPIDEMIC; FISH DISEASE; FLAVOBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; FLAVOBACTERIUM; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYOSITIS; NORWAY; PATHOLOGY; SEPSIS;

ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FISH DISEASES; FLAVOBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FLAVOBACTERIUM; MYOSITIS; NORWAY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SALMO SALAR; SEPSIS;

NORWAY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FLAVOBACTERIUM PSYCHROPHILUM; SALMO SALAR;

EID: 80455173488     PISSN: 01775103     EISSN: 16161580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/dao02390     Document Type: Article

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