The use of phage FCL-2 as an alternative to chemotherapy against columnaris disease in aquaculture

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue JUL, 2015, Pages

  Laanto, Elina ^a   Bamford, Jaana K H ^a   Ravantti, Janne J ^a,b   Sundberg, Lotta Riina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Aquaculture; Disease; Fish; Flavobacterium columnare; Phage therapy

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEINASE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TOBRAMYCIN;

ADSORPTION; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AQUACULTURE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIOPHAGE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; COLUMNARIS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; FCL 2; FLAVOBACTERIUM; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC STABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; RAINBOW TROUT; SURVIVAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WATER SAMPLING; ZEBRA FISH;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CELLULOPHAGA; DANIO RERIO; FLAVOBACTERIUM COLUMNARE; ICTALURUS PUNCTATUS; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS;

EID: 84938923733     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00829     Document Type: Article

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