Vibrio coralliilyticus strain OCN008 is an etiological agent of acute montipora white syndrome

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2102-2109

  Ushijima, Blake ^a,b   Videau, Patrick ^a   Burger, Andrew H ^a,b   Shore Maggio, Amanda ^a,b   Runyon, Christina M ^a,b   Sudek, Mareike ^b,c   Aeby, Greta S ^b   Callahan, Sean M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; POPULATION STATISTICS; SENSORS; TISSUE;

ETIOLOGICAL AGENT; GENETIC SIMILARITIES; HOST-SPECIFICITY; LABORATORY CONDITIONS; PURE CULTURE; QUORUM-SENSING SYSTEMS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; WATER TEMPERATURES;

PATHOGENS;

BACTERIUM; CORAL; DISEASE CONTROL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETIOLOGY; HOST SPECIFICITY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MORTALITY; POPULATION DECLINE;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; KANEOHE BAY; OAHU; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HOST RANGE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES; VIBRIO;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENOTYPE; HAWAII; HOST SPECIFICITY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TEMPERATURE; VIBRIO; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84896045953     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.03463-13     Document Type: Article

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