Viruses isolated from fish with viral haemorrhagic septicaemia (VHS), infectious haematopoietic necrosis (IHN), spring viraemia of carp (SVC), swim-bladder inflammation (SBI) and pike fry disease (PFD) have been grown to high titre in fathead minnow cells. While our preparations of the IHN, SVC, SBI and PFD viruses showed typical rhabdovirus morphology with bullet-shaped particles and distinct ...

Piscirickettsia salmonis is a facultative intracellular Gram-negative bacterium (Mauel, Ware & Smith 2008; Mikalsen et al. 2008) originally isolated from fish in Chile and constitutes one of the main problems in farmed salmonids and marine fish worldwide (see reviews by Almendras & Fuentealba 1997; Mauel & Miller 2002; Fryer & Hedrick 2003). This fastidious pathogen was first observed in southe...

Bacteriophages have been proposed as an alternative to antibiotic usage and several studies on their application in aquaculture have been reported. This review highlights progress to date on phage therapies for the following fish and shellfish diseases and associated pathogens: hemorrhagic septicemia (Aeromonas hydrophila) in loaches, furunculosis (Aeromonas salmonicida) in trout and salmon, ed...

Forty Pasteurella multocida subsp. multocida strains collected from cattle with haemorrhagic septicaemia belonging to serotype B:2, 5 and two reference strains of serotype B:2, were examined. The strains were isolated in the years 1958 to 1962 and 1985 to 1995. Analysis of the polimorfism of restricted DNA fragments by the use of the pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) technique of contour-...

The in vitro influence of methisoprinol on the replication of viral haemorrhagic septicaemia (VHS) and infectious haematopoetic necrosis (IHN) viruses by measuring their RNA synthesis was examined. EPC cell cultures containing various concentrations of methisoprinol (0, 100, 200, 300, 400 and 500 μg/ml of medium) were inoculated with VHS or IHN virus suspension containing 10 TCID50/ml. The inhi...

BACKGROUND Chronic kidney disease, including end-stage renal disease, has been identified as a possible risk factor for primary septicemia and wound infection by Vibrio vulnificus. However, cases of severe septicemia, necrotizing fasciitis, and peritonitis caused by V. vulnificus in patients undergoing continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) have not been described. We report a case of...