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Molecular epidemiology of Flavobacterium psychrophilum from Swiss fish farms.
Diseases of aquatic organisms - 3 Sept 2013
Strepparava Nicole, Nicolas Pierre, Wahli Thomas, Segner Helmut, Petrini Orlando
Abstract excerpt
Bacterial cold water disease (BCWD) and rainbow trout fry syndrome (RTFS) caused by Flavobacterium psychrophilum are 2 of the major diseases causing high fish mortality in salmonid fish farms. The molecular epidemiology of F. psychrophilum is still largely unknown. Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) has been previously used for this pathogen and underscored a correlation between clonal complexes and host fish...
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