Enterococcus seriolicida and streptococcus spp. (S. iniae, S. agalactiae and S. dysgalactiae)

Fish Diseases and Disorders

Volumn 3, Issue , 2011, Pages 375-396

  Salati, Fulvio ^a  

^a IZS of Sardinia   (Italy)

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