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Diversity of fish-associated flavobacteria of Michigan.
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Journal of aquatic animal health [J Aquat Anim Health] 2013 Sep; Vol. 25 (3), pp. 149-64. - Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- Flavobacteriosis poses a serious threat to wild and propagated fish stocks alike, accounting for more fish mortality in Michigan and its associated state fish hatcheries than all other pathogens combined. Although this consortium of fish diseases has primarily been attributed to Flavobacterium psychrophilum, F. columnare, and F. branchiophilum, herein we describe a diverse assemblage of Flavobacterium and Chryseobacterium spp. isolates recovered from diseased as well as apparently healthy wild, feral, and farmed fish of Michigan. Among 254 fish-associated flavobacterial isolates recovered from 21 fish species during 2003-2010, 211 were identified as Flavobacterium spp., whereas 43 were identified as Chryseobacterium spp. according to ribosomal RNA partial gene sequencing and phylogenetic analysis. Although F. psychrophilum and F. columnare were indeed associated with multiple fish mortality events, many previously uncharacterized flavobacteria were recovered from systemically infected fish showing overt signs of disease, and in vitro protease assays demonstrated that these isolates were highly proteolytic to multiple substrates that comprise host tissues. Indeed, the majority of the isolates either (1) were most similar to recently described fish-associated Flavobacterium and Chryseobacterium spp. that have never before been reported in North America (e.g., F. oncorhynchi, F. araucananum, C. viscerum, C. piscicola, and C. chaponense) or (2) did not cluster with any described species and most likely represent novel flavobacterial taxa. This study highlights the extreme diversity of flavobacteria that are potentially associated with flavobacteriosis in Michigan.
- Subjects :
- Animals
Chryseobacterium genetics
Fish Diseases epidemiology
Fishes
Flavobacteriaceae Infections epidemiology
Flavobacteriaceae Infections microbiology
Flavobacterium genetics
Great Lakes Region
Michigan epidemiology
Phylogeny
Chryseobacterium isolation & purification
Fish Diseases microbiology
Flavobacteriaceae Infections veterinary
Flavobacterium isolation & purification
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0899-7659
- Volume :
- 25
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Journal of aquatic animal health
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 23834635
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/08997659.2012.758189