“…Aeromonas are well‐known fish pathogens (Beaz‐Hidalgo & Figueras, ). The species with the highest clinical significance is Aeromonas salmonicida, the causative agent of furunculosis, a major disease with high mortality rates that causes great economic losses in aquaculture, particularly affecting salmonids (Beaz‐Hidalgo, Alperi, Bujan, Romalde & Figueras, ; Khor, Puah, Tan, Puthucheary & Chua, ; Menanteau‐Ledouble & El‐Matbouli, ). Other species, such as A hydrophila , Aeromonas bestiarum , A. veronii and Aeromonas sobria have also been associated with diseases in fish (Beaz‐Hidalgo & Figueras, ; Kozinska, ; Orozova, Barker, Austin & Austin, ; Rasmussen‐Ivey et al., ; Yi et al., ).…”