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Characterization of Renibacterium salmoninarum with reduced susceptibility to macrolide antibiotics by a standardized antibiotic susceptibility test.
Diseases of aquatic organisms - 7 Aug 2008
Rhodes Linda D, Nguyen Oanh T, Deinhard Rebecca K, White Teresa M, Harrell Lee W, Roberts Marilyn C
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Three cohorts of juvenile and subadult Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha received multiple treatments with macrolide antibiotics for bacterial kidney disease (BKD) during rearing in a captive broodstock program. A total of 77 mortalities among the cohorts were screened for Renibacterium salmoninarum, the etiologic agent of BKD, by agar culture from kidney, and isolates from 7 fish were suitable for growth...
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