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First description of nonmotile Vibrio vulnificus strains virulent for eels.
FEMS microbiology letters - 1 Jan 2007
Esteve Consuelo, Alcaide Elena, Herraiz Sonia, Canals Rocío, Merino Susana, Tomás Juan M
Abstract excerpt
Nonmotile Vibrio vulnificus strains were isolated as pure cultures from body ulcers and internal organs of wild diseased European eels caught in a Mediterranean freshwater coastal lagoon. All 54 V. vulnificus isolates were nonmotile, indole-, ornithine decarboxilase-, mannitol- and cellobiose-positive, developed the opaque variant in culture, belonged to the O-antigenic serovar A and were highly virulent for eels...
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