| extra small virus-like particles (xsv) and nodavirus associated with whitish muscle disease in the giant freshwater prawn, macrobrachium rosenbergii. | a disease of macrobrachium rosenbergii, the giant freshwater prawn, farmed in china was recently recorded in zhejiang, jiangsu, shanghai, guangxi and guangdong provinces. the clinical sign of the disease, which develops in post-larvae (pl), is a whitish appearance of the muscles, particularly noticeable in the abdomen. mortalities may reach 100% in some hatcheries. investigations by transmission electron microscopy after negative staining of diseased pl homogenates showed the presence of two typ ... | 2003 | 14575370 |
| antibiotic and heavy-metal resistance of vibrio parahaemolyticus isolated from fresh shrimps in shanghai fish markets, china. | vibrio parahaemolyticus is a causative agent of human serious seafood-borne gastroenteritis disease and even death. shrimps, often eaten raw or undercooked, are an important reservoir of the bacterium. in this study, we isolated and characterized a total of 400 v. parahaemolyticus strains from commonly consumed fresh shrimps (litopenaeus vannamei, macrobrachium rosenbergii, penaeus monodon, and exopalaemon carinicauda) in shanghai fish markets, china in 2013-2014. the results revealed an extreme ... | 2016 | 27083906 |