Article
Introduction, expansion and coexistence of epidemic Flavobacterium psychrophilum lineages in Chilean fish farms.
Veterinary microbiology - 4 Jun 2014
Avendaño-Herrera Ruben, Houel Armel, Irgang Rute, Bernardet Jean-François, Godoy Marcos, Nicolas Pierre, Duchaud Eric
Abstract excerpt
Chile is one of the countries where the development of salmonid farming has been the most successful. The first importation of salmonids in Chile from the northern hemisphere dates back to the late 19th century and the country now ranks as the world second largest producer of farmed salmon. However, the fast increase of infections caused by the bacterium Flavobacterium psychrophilum is a growing concern for this...
Topics
- Animals
- Chile
- Fish Diseases
- Fisheries
- Flavobacterium
- Genetic Variation
- Genotype
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Multilocus Sequence Typing
- Phylogeny
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Salmonidae
