Environment may be the source of Flavobacterium columnare outbreaks at fish farms

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 398-402

  Kunttu, Heidi M T ^a   Sundberg, Lotta Riina ^a   Pulkkinen, Katja ^a   Valtonen, E Tellervo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FLAVOBACTERIUM; FLAVOBACTERIUM COLUMNARE; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 84864016762     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2012.00342.x     Document Type: Article

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