Flavobacterial diseases: Columnaris disease, coldwater disease and bacterial gill disease

Fish Diseases and Disorders

Volumn 3, Issue , 2011, Pages 606-631

  Starliper, Clifford E ^a   Schill, William B ^a  

^a LEETOWN SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

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