Atypical Aeromonas salmonicida Infection in Cultured Marbled Sole Pleuronectes yokohamae

Accession number;06A0595017
Title;Atypical Aeromonas salmonicida Infection in Cultured Marbled Sole Pleuronectes yokohamae
Author; KUMAGAI AKIRA (Miyagi Prefect. Inland Water Fish. Exp. Stn., JPN) SUGIMOTO KOICHI (Miyagi Prefecture, Sea-Farming Center, JPN) ITO DAISUKE (Miyagi Prefecture, Sea-Farming Center, JPN) ITO DAISUKE (Miyagi Prefecture Fisheries Res. and Dev. Center, JPN) KAMAISHI TAKASHI (National Res. Inst. Aquaculture, Fisheries Res. Agency, JPN) MIWA SATOSHI (National Res. Inst. Aquaculture, Fisheries Res. Agency, JPN) IIDA TAKAJI (National Res. Inst. Aquaculture, Fisheries Res. Agency, JPN)
Journal Title;Fish Pathology
Journal Code:G0015B
ISSN:0388-788X
VOL.41;NO.1;PAGE.7-12(2006)
Figure&Table&Reference;FIG.7, TBL.3, REF.14
Pub. Country;Japan
Language;Japanese
Abstract;In spring of 2003, a mass mortality occurred in a population of marbled sole Pleuronectes yokohamae reared at a hatchery of Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Since the first case, outbreak of the disease has been repeated every year in the hatchery. The affected fish weighing 1-5 g showed hemorrhagic lesions on the body surface. The maximum cumulative mortality reached more than 80%. The prominent histopathological feature was hemorrhage and necrosis in the gill, muscle, liver, heart and kidney associated with extensive bacterial multiplication. A single species of bacterium was isolated from the kidneys of the diseased fish using trypticase soy agar containing 1% NaCl at 20.DEG.C.. The isolates were identified as atypical Aeromonas salmonicida by biochemical, serological and molecular phylogenetic analyses. Experimental infections confirmed that an isolate was highly pathogenic not only to marbled sole, but also to Japanese flounder Paralichthys olivaceus and spotted halibut Verasper variegatus, with LD50 of less than 10'2' CFU/fish (1.4-6.8 g body weight) by intramuscular injection. (author abst.)
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