Outbreak of a novel disease associated with Vibrio mimicus infection in fresh water cultured yellow catfish, Pelteobagrus fulvidraco》.pdf

Aquaculture 432 (2014) 119–124 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Aquaculture journal homepage: www. elsevi er. com/ locate /aqua-online Outbreak of a novel disease associated with Vibrio mimicus infection in fresh water cultured yellow catfish, Pelteobagrus fulvidraco Xiang Zhang a,1, Yan-Wei Li b,1, Ze-Quan Mo a, Xiao-Chun Luo c, Hong-Yan Sun d, Peng Liu a, An-Xing Li b, Su-Ming Zhou e,⁎, Xue-Ming Dan a,⁎⁎ a College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, PR China b Key Laboratory for Aquatic Products Safety of Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, The School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, PR China c School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, PR China d Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology (LMB), South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, PR China e Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biotechnology, School of Marine Science, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, PR China a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: An outbreak of a novel disease characterized by serious and regularly shaped ulcers in the skin was recorded in Received 24 March 2014 cultured yellow catfish (Pelteobagrus fulvidraco) in Guangdong and Guangxi provinces of South-China in 2011. Received in revised form 14 April 2014 Several bacterial strains that exhibited the same phenotypic traits and biochemical characteristics were isolated Accepted 29 April 2014