Atypical Aeromonas salmonicida vapA type V and Vibrio spp. are predominant bacteria recovered from ballan wrasse Labrus bergylta in Scotland

• Published in: Diseases of Aquatic Organisms
• Main Authors: Papadopoulou, Athina, Wallis, Tim, Ramirez-Paredes, Jose Gustavo, Monaghan, Sean J, Davie, Andrew, Migaud, Herve, Adams, Alexandra
• Other Authors: SAIC Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre, Institute of Aquaculture, Ridgeway Biologicals Ltd, orcid:0000-0002-7692-7756, orcid:0000-0002-9524-618X, orcid:0000-0002-5404-7512
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Inter-Research Science Center 2020
• Subjects: Atypical Aeromonas salmonicida; Ballan wrasse; Health survey; Cleaner fish; Ballan; Atlantic salmon
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1893/31429; https://doi.org/10.3354/dao03489; http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/31429/1/Papadopoulou%20et%20al%202019_Atypical%20Aeromonas%20salmonicida%20in%20Scottish%20ballan%20wrasse.pdf

Healthy and/or moribund farmed and wild ballan wrasse Labrus bergylta (>0.5 to 900 g) were sampled from hatcheries (n = 2) and Atlantic salmon cage sites (n = 8) in Scotland between February 2016 and October 2018. Less than half of the sampled individuals (n = 43, 32.3%) had been vaccinated (auto...