Article
Occurrence of rare genotypes of Streptococcus agalactiae in cultured red tilapia Oreochromis sp. and Nile tilapia O. niloticus in Thailand--Relationship to human isolates?
2008-11-01
Abstract excerpt
Streptococcus agalactiae (Group B streptococcus, GBS) is an important pathogen affecting humans and animals as well as aquatic species. Between April 2003 and March 2006, bacteria were isolated from infected red tilapia Oreochromis sp. and Nile tilapia O. niloticus cultured in Thailand. They were identified as GBS by API 20 STREP, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and multiplex PCR-based reverse line blot hybridizat...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 46fa23f9-0bcb-5462-9aa1-129300adee94
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2008.07.034
