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Peracute vibriosis in juvenile turbot Scophthalmus maximus
Author(s) -
Horne M. T.,
Richards R. H.,
Roberts R. J.,
Smith P. C.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
journal of fish biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.672
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1095-8649
pISSN - 0022-1112
DOI - 10.1111/j.1095-8649.1977.tb04129.x
Subject(s) - turbot , scophthalmus , biology , vibrio anguillarum , juvenile , outbreak , zoology , microbiology and biotechnology , fish <actinopterygii> , anatomy , fishery , vibrio , virology , bacteria , ecology , genetics
An outbreak of an acute oedematous disease characterised by orbital and abdominal swelling, and high mortality, in young turbot, was studied. The clinical and pathological picture was consistent with a circulating toxaemia principally affecting the heart, orbit and kidney. Vibrio anguillarum , virtually identical with type strain NCMB6, was isolated in pure culture from all organs of all fish. Therapy was only marginally successful using antibiotics but in a small group subjected to temperature reduction below 10°C, losses were reduced from 20 % to 5 % compared with the controls.