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New attenuated vaccine against columnaris disease in fish: choosing the right parental strain is critical for vaccine efficacy.
Vaccine - 25 Oct 2013
Mohammed Haitham, Olivares-Fuster Oscar, LaFrentz Stacey, Arias Covadonga R
Abstract excerpt
Flavobacterium columnare, the causative agent of columnaris disease, is a highly diverse species comprised by three genomovars. Genomovar II strains are more virulent toward catfishes than genomovar I isolates. The objective of this study was to compare the vaccine efficacy of avirulent mutants derived from genomovars I and II using a rifampicin-resistance strategy. First, we compared the efficacy of 13 genomovar...
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