Article
Photobacterium damselae subsp. piscicida: an integrated view of a bacterial fish pathogen.
International microbiology : the official journal of the Spanish Society for Microbiology - 1 Mar 2002
Romalde Jesús L
Abstract excerpt
Pasteurellosis, or pseudotuberculosis, is a bacterial septicaemia caused by the halophilic bacterium Photobacterium damselae subsp. piscicida (formerly Pasteurella piscicida). Although this disease was first described in wild populations of white perch and striped bass, currently the natural hosts of the pathogen are a wide variety of marine fish. The disease has great economic impact both in Japan, where it...
Topics
- Animals
- Bacteremia
- Fish Diseases
- Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections
- Molecular Diagnostic Techniques
- Pasteurella Infections
- Phenotype
- Photobacterium
- Virulence
