Candidatus branchiomonas cysticola is a common agent of epitheliocysts in seawater-farmed atlantic salmon salmo salar in norway and ireland

Diseases of Aquatic Organisms

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 35-43

  Mitchell, Susan O ^a,b   Steinum, Terje M ^a   Toenshoff, Elena R ^c   Kvellestad, Agnar ^d   Falk, Knut ^a   Horn, Matthias ^c   Colquhoun, Duncan J ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b Unit 7b Oranmore Business Park   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Atlantic salmon; Candidatus branchiomonas cysticola; Candidatus piscichlamydia salmonis; Epitheliocystis; Gill pathology; Pgi; Proliferative gill disease

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

BACTERIAL DISEASE; BIOASSAY; CYST; DISEASE PREVALENCE; FISH CULTURE; FLUORESCENCE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; MITE; PATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMONID CULTURE; SEAWATER;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; AQUACULTURE; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC SALMON; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL SKIN DISEASE; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; EPIDEMIC; FISH DISEASE; IRELAND; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; NORWAY; PREVALENCE;

ANIMALS; AQUACULTURE; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FISH DISEASES; IRELAND; NORWAY; PREVALENCE; SALMO SALAR; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL;

IRELAND; NORWAY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS PISCICHLAMYDIA SALMONIS; SALMO SALAR;

EID: 84875542715     PISSN: 01775103     EISSN: 16161580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/dao02563     Document Type: Article

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