Identification and phylogenetic analysis of Vibrio vulnificus isolated from diseased Trachinotus ovatus in cage mariculture

The Fish Pathogen Vibrio vulnificus Biotype 2: Epidemiology, Phylogeny, and Virulence Factors Involved in Warm-Water Vibriosis

“…Afterwards, the disease was reported in different European eel farms, including those from Nordic countries (notably Germany, Holland, and Denmark) (30, 31; and personal communications with different eel farmers). In parallel, new warm-water vibriosis cases, which affected other farmed fish species and shrimps were reported worldwide (21,22,23,24). None of these cases caused the detrimental effects that warm-water vibriosis produced on eel aquaculture (personal communications with different eel farmers).…”

“…The most susceptible host for this vibriosis is the eel (Anguilla anguilla and A. japonica) (20). Other susceptible hosts are derbio (Trachinotus ovatus) (21), tilapia (Oreochromis sp) (22), trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) (23), and shrimp (Penaeus vannamei) (24). Warm-water vibriosis in its acute form is also a primary septicemia, but in this case, it is triggered irrespectively of the pathogen's route of entry (gills, intestine, skin injury) and/or the host's immune status (25).…”

Passive transfer of serum from tilapia vaccinated with a Vibrio vulnificus vaccine provides protection from specific pathogen challenge

“…This pathogen has had the largest impact on the production of eels (Anguilla anguilla and Anguilla japonica) in Europe and Japan (Fouz et al, 2006;Tison et al, 1982); however, there are cases of V. vulnificus impacting the production of tilapia Oreochromis spp. (Chen et al, 2006;Sakata and Hattori, 1988;Shoemaker et al, 2011) and pompano Trachinotus ovatus (Li et al, 2006). The feasibility of vaccination for the prevention of losses in eels due to V. vulnificus was established in the laboratory (Collado et al, 2000) and subsequent work demonstrated the efficacy of vaccination under production conditions (Fouz et al, 2001).…”

First isolation and characterization ofEdwardsiella tardafrom diseased Asian swamp eel,Monopterus albus(Zuiew)

“…Samples from liver, kidney, spleen and anus were taken aseptically to confirm the cause of death. Mortalities were only considered if the challenged strain was re-isolated as a pure culture from internal organs and confirmed by biochemical characteristics and 16S rDNA sequencing (Li, Zhao, Huang, Sun, Gao, Wang, Tan & Liang 2006). All fish were killed when 200 lL volumes of ASE201307 containing cells 2.0 9 10 8 cells mL À1 were applied.…”