Deoxyribonucleic Acid Relatedness of Serovars of Yersinia ruckeri, the Enteric Redmouth Bacterium

Yersinia ruckeri, the causative agent of enteric redmouth disease in fish

Enteric redmouth disease (ERM) is a serious septicemic bacterial disease of salmonid fish species. It is caused by Yersinia ruckeri, a Gram-negative rod-shaped enterobacterium. It has a wide host range, broad geographical distribution, and causes significant economic losses in the fish aquaculture industry. The disease gets its name from the subcutaneous hemorrhages, it can cause at the corners...

Detection and identification of virulent Yersinia ruckeri: the causative agent of enteric redmouth disease in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) cultured in Fars province, Iran

From the winter 2002 to spring 2006, 126 moribund rainbow trout with clinical signs of external body haemorrhages around and within the oral cavity were sampled from 10 rainbow trout farms situated in the northwest and west of Fars province, Iran and examined for the detection and identification of Yersinia ruckeri, the causative agent of enteric redmouth disease. Fish kidneys were cultured ase...

Pathogenicity of Yersinia ruckeri bacterium in Persian sturgeon (Acipenser persicus) fingerlings

In the present study, we evaluated the pathogenicity of Yersinia ruckeri on Persian sturgeon (Acipenser persicus) fingerlings. We divided the sturgeon into one treatment group, one positive control group and one negative control group (with three replicates for each group). The treatment group juvenile Persian sturgeon received 0.1 ml of bacterial suspension (2.8 × 106 cells/fish) via an intrap...

Phylogeography of Yersinia ruckeri reveals effects of past evolutionary events on the current strain distribution and explains variations in the global transmission of enteric redmouth (ERM) disease

Phylogeographic patterns and population genetic structure of Yersinia ruckeri, the pathological agent of enteric redmouth disease (ERM) in salmonids, were investigated on the basis of concatenated multiloci sequences from isolates of different phenotypes obtained between 1965 and 2009 from diverse areas and hosts. Sequence analyses revealed genetic differentiation among subpopulations with the ...

Enteric Redmouth Disease of Salmonids