Isolates of Piscirickettsia salmonis from Scotland and Ireland Show Evidence of Clonal Diversity

Salmonid rickettsial septicemia, caused by Piscirickettsia salmonis, causes major mortalities in Chilean salmonid aquaculture and is an increasing problem in Atlantic salmon in Ireland and Scotland. Analysis of 16S-to-23S internal transcribed sequences and 16S ribosomal DNA (rDNA) shows that Irish i...

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Published in:Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Main Authors: Reid, H. I., Griffen, A. A., Birkbeck, T. H.
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2004
Subjects:
Microbial Ecology
Atlantic salmon
Online Access:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC444838
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15240328
https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.70.7.4393-4397.2004
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Summary:Salmonid rickettsial septicemia, caused by Piscirickettsia salmonis, causes major mortalities in Chilean salmonid aquaculture and is an increasing problem in Atlantic salmon in Ireland and Scotland. Analysis of 16S-to-23S internal transcribed sequences and 16S ribosomal DNA (rDNA) shows that Irish isolates of P. salmonis form two new groups of the organism while Scottish isolates cluster together with Norwegian and Canadian isolates from Atlantic salmon.

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