| francisella asiatica as the causative agent of piscine francisellosis in cultured tilapia (oreochromis sp.) in the united states. | francisella asiatica is a gram-negative, pleomorphic, facultative intracellular, bacterial pathogen that causes acute to chronic disease in a wide variety of warm-water cultured and wild fish species. outbreaks of francisellosis in warm water fish have been documented in taiwan, japan, united kingdom, hawaii, and latin america (including costa rica) but the organism has only been reported from the united states on one occasion from hybrid striped bass in california. in 2010, the bacterium was de ... | 2011 | 21908332 |
| prevalence of francisella noatunensis subsp. orientalis in cultured tilapia on the island of oahu, hawaii. | francisellosis is an emergent disease in cultured and wild aquatic animals. the causative agent, francisella noatunensis subsp. orientalis (fno), is a gram-negative bacterium recognized as one of the most virulent pathogens of warmwater fish. the main objective of this project was to investigate the prevalence of fno in cultured tilapia (specifically, mozambique tilapia oreochromis mossambicus, koilapia [also known as wami tilapia] o. hornorum, blue tilapia o. aureus, and nile tilapia o. nilotic ... | 2013 | 23639074 |