Lactococcus garvieae is the etiological agent of Lactococcosis, an emergent disease which
affects many fish species and causes important economic losses both in marine and …

Several bacterial etiological agents of streptococcal disease have been associated with fish
mortality and serious global economic loss. Bacterial identification based on biochemical …

Objective—To determine the prevalence of Streptococcus iniae in tilapia (Oreochromis spp),
hybrid striped bass (Morone chrysops× M saxatilis), and channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) …

ABSTRACT A multiplex PCR-based method was designed for the simultaneous detection of
the main pathogens involved in warm-water streptococcosis in fish (Streptococcus iniae …

Streptococcus sp. is gram-positive coccus that causes streptococcal infections in fish due to
intensification of aquaculture and caused significant economic losses in fish farm industry. A …

Fish density and infectious dose have been suspected to affect the mortality rate of cultured
fish exposed to Streptococcusiniae. We determined the effects of S. iniae dose and tilapia …

We evaluated the effectiveness of Streptococcus iniae vaccines prepared from formalin-
killed cells and concentrated extracellular products (greater than 2 kDa) of a single isolate of …

The phenotypic and genetic analysis results for 84 isolates of Lactococcus garvieae
(including 62 strains from trout with lactococcosis from four different countries, 7 strains from …

Infection with Lactococcus garvieae is considered the most important risk factor for the
European trout industry, and the losses are approximately 50% of the total production. To …

The etiological agents of streptococcosis were isolated from diseased olive flounder
collected on the Jeju island of Korea. A total of 151 bacterial isolates were collected …