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Erina Fujiwara-Nagata
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Open AccessHost specificity and virulence of Flavobacterium psychrophilum: a comparative study in ayu (Plecoglossus altivelis) and rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) hosts
Flavobacterium psychrophilum, the causative agent of bacterial cold-water disease, is a devastating, worldwide distributed, fish pathogen causing significant economic loss in inland fish farms. Previous epidemiol...
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Early prediction of environmental deterioration in a coastal fish farming area using lactic acid bacteria as an indicator
We hypothesized that lactic acid bacteria (LAB) present in sediments at aquaculture sites can be employed as an indicator for the early prediction of deterioration, as the concentration of organic acids contro...
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Open AccessSkin bacteria of rainbow trout antagonistic to the fish pathogen Flavobacterium psychrophilum
Rainbow trout fry syndrome (RTFS) and bacterial coldwater disease (BCWD) is a globally distributed freshwater fish disease caused by Flavobacterium psychrophilum. In spite of its importance, an effective vaccine ...
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Open AccessDistribution of Flavobacterium psychrophilum and its gyrA genotypes in a river
Flavobacterium psychrophilum can be divided into three genotypes, G-C type (ayu type), A-C type (multi-fish type), and A-T type (salmon-trout type), by two single-nucleotide polymorphisms in the DNA gyrase subuni...
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Open AccessPopulation structure of the fish pathogen Flavobacterium psychrophilum at whole-country and model river levels in Japan
The bacterium Flavobacterium psychrophilum is a serious problem for salmonid farming worldwide. This study investigates by multilocus sequence ty** (MLST) the population structure of this pathogen in Japan wher...
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Transcriptional regulation of the Na+-NADH:quinone oxidoreductase gene, nqr, in Vibrio anguillarum, a fish pathogen, in the stationary phase
Vibrio anguillarum kills various kinds of fish over a range of salinities from sea water to fresh water, and causes serious damage to aquaculture systems. In this study, the transcriptional regul...
