First identification in Tasmania of fish pathogens Tenacibaculum dicentrarchi and T. soleae and multiplex PCR for these organisms and T. maritimum.

This work describes a new polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay for rapid identification of the fish pathogens Tenacibaculum dicentrarchi, T. maritimum and T. soleae, 3 organisms which can cause tenacibaculosis in farmed salmonids.