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The authors comment on a study by Mouriño et al. in which the first record in Brazil of the filamentous bacteria Flexibacter maritimus from the hatching of the post-larvae of Litopenaeus vannamei was reported. According to the authors, only 13 biochemical assays were done to propose Tenacibaculum maritimum as the cause of massive mortality of L. vannamei post-larvae. They assert that despite the potential of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) detection, the researchers did not do such.