Publications

phenotypic and genotypic analysis of flavobacterium psychrophilum isolates from ontario salmonids with bacterial coldwater disease.	flavobacterium psychrophilum is the causative agent of bacterial coldwater disease (bcwd) and rainbow trout fry syndrome. bcwd has a considerable economic impact on aquaculture operations in ontario, canada, and our limited understanding of the population structure and epidemiology of f. psychrophilum isolates is an impediment to the development of improved management strategies. seventy-five 16s rrna gene and gyr polymerase chain reaction positive isolates of f. psychrophilum that had been coll ...	2008	18772924
antimicrobial susceptibility of flavobacterium psychrophilum isolates from ontario.	flavobacterium psychrophilum is the etiological agent of bacterial coldwater disease (bcwd), an important disease in the ontario fish farming industry and in finfish aquaculture in temperate waters worldwide. the development of antimicrobial resistance by f. psychrophilum is a concern because management of outbreaks of bcwd often requires the use of antibiotics. seventy-two isolates of f. psychrophilum collected over a 16-year period from farmed salmonids with clinical signs of bcwd were tested ...	2010	20575364