Article
Biochemical and serological characterization of Carnobacterium spp. isolated from farmed and natural populations of striped bass and catfish.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Nov 1991
Baya A M, Toranzo A E, Lupiani B, Li T, Roberson B S, Hetrick F M
Abstract excerpt
A comparative analysis of the phenotypic and serological properties of Carnobacterium strains associated with mortalities of cultured striped bass and channel catfish and the properties of isolates from wild brown bullhead catfish in the Chesapeake Bay area in Maryland was conducted. All of the strains were gram-positive, facultatively anaerobic, nonmotile, non-spore-forming rods occurring singly or in short...
Topics
- Animals
- Bass
- Fish Diseases
- Gram-Positive Asporogenous Rods
- Ictaluridae
- Lactobacillaceae
- Phenotype
- Serotyping
- Trout
- Virulence
