Zlotkin A, Hershko H, Eldar A
Department of Clinical Microbiology, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem 91120, Israel.
Appl Environ Microbiol. 1998 Oct;64(10):4065-7. doi: 10.1128/AEM.64.10.4065-4067.1998.
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.
海豚链球菌是从靠近一个海水养殖设施采集的患病野生鱼类中分离出来的,在该养殖设施中,金头鲷和欧洲鲈鱼出现了类似感染。种特异性PCR和核糖分型证实野生和养殖鱼类均被单个海豚链球菌克隆株感染。因此,野生鱼类是致病性海豚链球菌菌株的潜在扩增宿主。