First report of Streptococcus parauberis in a cultured freshwater ornamental fish, the ram cichlid Mikrogeophagus ramirezi (Myers & Harry, 1948)

• Published in: Journal of Fish Diseases
• Main Authors: Lazado, Carlo C, Fridman, Sophie, Sinai, Tamar, Zilberg, Dina
• Other Authors: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Institute of Aquaculture, orcid:0000-0002-0159-0474
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2018
• Subjects: aquaculture; fish health; histopathology; streptococcosis; Streptococcus parauberis; Gomez; Myers; Scophthalmus maximus; Turbot
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1893/25705; https://doi.org/10.1111/jfd.12676; http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/25705/1/Lazado%20et%20al%20Sparauberis%20Main%20Text%20%20JFD.R1%20no%20highlight.pdf

First paragraph: Since the first report of an outbreak of a streptococcal infection in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in Japan in 1958 (Hoshina, Sano, & Morimoto,1958), streptococcosis has been responsible for significant mortalities resulting in considerable losses to the aquaculture indus...