Microbial ecology of fish species ongrowing in Greek sea farms and their watery environment

Anaerobe

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 264-266

  Alexopoulos, A ^a   Plessas, S ^a   Voidarou, C ^b   Noussias, H ^a   Stavropoulou, E ^a   Mantzourani, I ^a   Tzora, A ^b   Skoufos, I ^b   Bezirtzoglou, E ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b Epirus Institute of Technology Arta   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aquatic environment; Euryhaline fish; P.piscicida; Vibrio

Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOCOCCUS; LISTONELLA ANGUILLARUM; MICROFLORA; MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOBACTERIUM DAMSELAE PISCICIDA; POLLUTION CONTROL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; SALMONELLA; WATER ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; AQUACULTURE; BACTERIA; BASS; BIOTA; FECES; GREECE; SEA BREAM; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ARCHOSARGUS RHOMBOIDALIS; BACILLUS SP.; CLOSTRIDIA; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; DICENTRARCHUS LABRAX; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOCOCCUS SP.; LISTONELLA ANGUILLARUM; PHOTOBACTERIUM DAMSELAE SUBSP. PISCICIDA; PISCES; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS SP.; SALMONELLA SP.; SERRANIDAE; SPARUS AURATA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SP.; VIBRIO; VIBRIO SP.;

EID: 84655169976     PISSN: 10759964     EISSN: 10958274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anaerobe.2011.03.003     Document Type: Article

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