a disease outbreak occurred in june 2012 among mud loach cultured on pond farms in jangseong-gun, jeollanam-do, korea. mortality rates reached up to 1.2% in the farm per day. typical clinical signs were bleeding ulcer at the middle portion of head and haemorrhagic erosion of the operculum. based on biochemical characteristics, the causative bacterium isolated from diseased fish was identified a...

Aeromonas is ubiquitous in aquatic ecosystems but can cause various human infections, including gastrointestinal tract syndromes and soft tissue infections (3). Its role as a diarrheal agent remains controversial, but several studies show a substantial association (1, 2, 4, 6). For this reason, we included Aeromonas in our recent multiplex PCR-Luminex assay for several bacterial enteropathogens...

Tether before synapse C hemokines are captured on the surface of dendritic cells in lymph nodes, and they in turn capture T cells, say Rachel Friedman, Jordan Jacobelli, and Matthew Krummel (University of California, San Francisco, CA). The tethered T cells continue to search for a site worthy of a full immunological synapse, which they can form with either the same or another antigen-presentin...

A disease outbreak occurred in June 2012 among mud loach cultured on pond farms in Jangseong-gun, Jeollanam-do, Korea. Mortality rates reached up to 1.2% in the farm per day. Typical clinical signs were bleeding ulcer at the middle portion of head and haemorrhagic erosion of the operculum. Based on biochemical characteristics, the causative bacterium isolated from diseased fish was identified a...