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Emergence of a new multidrug-resistant and highly virulent serotype of Streptococcus agalactiae in fish farms from Brazil
2017-10-01
Abstract excerpt
Streptococcus agalactiae is one of the major etiological agents of streptococcosis in cultured and wild fish. Although there are ten serotypes described for this pathogen, the serotypes Ib, Ia and III are the most common fish diseases worldwide. In Brazil, only serotypes Ib and Ia have been implicated in fish disease so far, with Ia being rare. At the end of 2016, a disease outbreak resulted in high mortality rate...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 759a7034-33cb-5c42-a811-599505d03b10
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2017.05.013
