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Possible transmission of Streptococcus iniae from wild fish to cultured marine fish
A Zlotkin1, H Hershko, A Eldar
1Department of Clinical Microbiology, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem 91120, Israel.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
|October 6, 1998
Abstract:
Streptococcus iniae was isolated from diseased wild fish collected near a mariculture facility where gilthead sea bream and European sea bass exhibited a similar infection. Species-specific PCR and ribotyping confirmed that wild and cultured fish were infected by a single S. iniae clone. Wild fish are therefore potential amplifiers of pathogenic S. iniae strains.