Lactococcus garvieae infection in cultured Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus (L.), and pintado, Pseudoplathystoma corruscans (Spix & Agassiz), from Brazil is reported. The commercial bacterial identification system, Biolog Microlog, confirmed the identity of L. garvieae. Infectivity trials conducted in Nile tilapia using Brazilian Nile tilapia L. garvieae isolates resulted in a median lethal ...

Industrial biotechnology processes have recently been exploited for an economic utilization of wastes to produce value added products. Of which, fish waste is one of the rich sources of proteins that can be utilized as low cost substrates for microbial enzyme production. Fish heads, tails, fins, viscera and the chitinous materials make up the wastes from fish industries. Processing these wastes...

Malignant melanomas may be difficult to differentiate from benign nevi on the basis of histology. Contrary to nevi, the majority of melanomas harbor chromosomal imbalances. Comparative genomic hybridization-based and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) tests can help differentiating malignant from benign tumors. In the present study, eight-bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) probes targ...

The globalization of fish and fishery products markets combined with the increase of consumer demand lead to a huge variety of non-endemic fish species in the marketplace. This might raise concerns about the inability of fish inspectors to distinguish fish species with similar morphological characteristics, particularly when they are processed and sold as fillets or slices in the country of ori...