| characterization and identification of virulent klebsiella oxytoca isolated from abalone (haliotis diversicolor supertexta) postlarvae with mass mortality in fujian, china. | an epidemic of mass mortality of abalone (haliotis diversicolor supertexta) postlarvae aged 40 days or less has existed across south coast of china since the second half of 2002. among 20 bacterial strains isolated from diseased abalone postlarvae on 2216e marine agar plates during an outbreak of postlarval disease in august 2005, a predominant strain (designated strain 20) was demonstrated to be virulent to postlarvae with an ld(50) value of 1.0x10(5) colony forming units (cfuml(-1)) on day 4, ... | 2008 | 17716687 |