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View Article and Find Full Text PDFand other closely related species cause motile aeromonad septicemia, a common fish disease. The disease affects many aquaculture sectors potentially requiring antimicrobial treatments. Therefore, researchers and laboratory diagnosticians need criteria called epidemiological cutoff values (ECVs) to determine whether a bacterial isolate has developed decreased susceptibility to an antimicrobial.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF, the causative agent of columnaris disease in a large variety of freshwater fish, is a major problem in commercial aquaculture. A limited number of antimicrobial therapies are available to control this disease; therefore, these agents must be used judiciously. To facilitate effective monitoring for changes in susceptibility, the Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) has a standard broth microdilution test method specific for .
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe report the draft whole-genome sequences for and type strains, bacteria that have been associated with fish gill disease.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe report here the draft whole-genome sequences for 18 species type strains that have historically been associated with fish gill disease.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFlavobacterium columnare and F. psychrophilum are major fish pathogens that cause diseases that may require antimicrobial therapy. Choice of appropriate treatment is dependent upon determining the antimicrobial susceptibility of isolates.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe industrial chemical melamine was used in 2007 and 2008 to raise the apparent protein content in pet feed and watered down milk, respectively. Because humans may be exposed to melamine via several different routes into the human diet as well as deliberate contamination, this study was designed to characterize the effect of high dose melamine or cyanuric acid oral exposure on the pregnant animal and developing fetus, including placental transfer. Clear rectangular crystals formed following a single triazine exposure which is a different morphology from the golden spherulites caused by combined exposure or the calculi formed when melamine combines with endogenous uric acid.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA multi-laboratory broth microdilution method trial was performed to standardize the specialized test conditions required for the fish pathogens Flavobacterium columnare and F. psychrophilum. Nine laboratories tested the quality control (QC) strains Escherichia coli ATCC 25922 and Aeromonas salmonicida subsp.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOur objectives were to determine whether sedation with metomidate hydrochloride (hereafter, "metomidate") during transportation of threespot gourami Trichogaster trichopterus would prevent an increase in blood glucose levels and improve fish marketability (i.e., based on appearance and behavior) in comparison with unsedated controls.
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