| bacteriological survey of the blue crab industry. | during sanitation inspections of 46 crabmeat processing plants on the atlantic and gulf coasts, 487 samples of whole crabs immediately after cooking, cooked crabs after cooling, backed or washed (or both) crab bodies and whole crab claws, as well as 1,506 retail units of finished product were collected and analyzed bacteriologically. the 1,506 retail units (1-lb [373.24-g] cans) included 518 cans of regular (special) meat, 487 cans of claw meat, and 501 cans of lump meat. statistical analyses sh ... | 1972 | 4568256 |
| conservation in the first internal transcribed spacer (its1) region of hematodinium perezi (genotype iii) from callinectes sapidus . | hematodinium spp. infections have been reported from blue crabs callinectes sapidus in high-salinity waters of the usa from new jersey to texas. recently, h. perezi (genotype iii) has been proposed as the parasite species and genotype infecting blue crabs from virginia; however, it is unknown whether this same genotype is present in blue crabs from other locations. to address this question, we collected 317 blue crabs from massachusetts, virginia, georgia, florida, louisiana, and texas to test f ... | 2013 | 23482386 |
| incidence of vibrio species associated with blue crabs (callinectes sapidus) collected from galveston bay, texas. | bacteria were readily isolated from the hemolymph of a majority (88%) of the blue crabs collected from galveston bay, texas. the hemolymph of most crabs contained moderate (greater than 10(3) bacteria/ml) to heavy (greater than (10(5) bacteria/ml) infections. large variances were observed in the bacterial number associated with individual crabs, but no significant difference was observed between the mean bacterial levels in the hemolymph of crabs collected during different seasons of the samplin ... | 1982 | 7103475 |
| bioaccumulation of polychlorinated dibenzodioxins and dibenzofurans in catfish and crabs along an estuarine salinity and contamination gradient. | elevated but variable levels of polychlorinated dibenzodioxins and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (pcdd/fs) were observed in hardhead sea catfish (hh) and blue crabs (bcs), as well as in water and sediment, of the houston ship channel system, texas, usa. it is hypothesized that the variation was caused by the spatial variability of pcdd/f contamination, together with the natural mobility of organisms in satisfying prey, temperature, salinity, and reproductive requirements. structural equation mod ... | 2009 | 19606914 |